Author: Norbert Wolf

The Art Nouveau movement became an international phenomenon at the beginning of the twentieth century that ushered in the era of modernity in almos...

The idea of renaissance, or rebirth, arose in Italy as a way of reviving the art, science, and scholarship of the Classical era. It was also powere...

The Golden Age in Holland and Flanders roughly spanned the 17th century and was a period of enormous advances in the fields of commerce, scienceand...

Sharp angles, strange forms, lurid colors, and distorted perspectives are classic hallmarks of Expressionism, the twentieth century movement that p...

Court painter to King Philip IV of Spain, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 1599 August 6, 1660) is not only a leading light of the Spani...

A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (14711528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from re...

Religion, Renaissance, and Reformationthese three ideologies shaped the world of 16th-century portraitist Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/981543), a...

Albrecht Durer's prints and drawings have inspired hundreds of artists, both during his life and after his death. Yet his talent as a painter and c...