Marie Bracquemond, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Berthe Morisot – these painters, all affiliated with the Impressionist art movement, have not received the attention given their…

Édouard Manet was, in key ways, the first “modern” painter. Born in Paris during great social upheaval, he reinvented traditional painting to capture the changing scenes of urban…

Pop artist Andy Warhol is known for his glacially cool, photo-based serial imagery, which erased the artist’s hand from the final product. But is Warhol’s art impersonal? His…

French 19th century painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s long-standing anti-Semitism affected his career choices, his aesthetic strategies, and his painterly style. Explore the…

In Florence, Italy, in the early 1400s, male same-sex practices were not uncommon. Leonardo da Vinci was anonymously denounced for this as a young man, and his case’s outcome…