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Art was more important than anything else for the founder of modern sculpture, who created sculptures that would enjoy a lasting renown, including ...

Art Nouveau, elegant ornamentation, and sensual women. Hardly any other artist proved a greater virtuoso in this style than Alphonse Mucha. Discove...

A divine painter and universal genius, Leonardo da Vinci continues to fascinate us almost 500 years after his death. The works reproduced here allo...

The baroque period spanned the whole of Europe from 1600 to 1780. Beginning with Italian artists who brought drama to painting through dynamic comp...

Scientist, artist, and explorer: Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) continues to fascinate with her highly detailed depictions of flowers, butterflie...

For thousands of years and in many cultures people have been inspired by mosaics. Whether the stylistically reduced pebble mosaics of the Greeks or...

The period between 1750 and the end of the 19th century was a time of upheaval. Industrialization in England, the French Revolution, Napoleon and t...