If you think the selfie was born as a direct result of the cellphone, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” painted just over 500 years ago by Francesco Mazzola, the Italian artist commonly known as ...
Traditional art has an element of illusionism to it. This has long been commented on, and is responsible for the prevalent thought (at least among the general public) that the more realistic the ...
In the late morning hours of Oct. 12, 1654, a cataclysmic explosion of gunpowder magazines decimated the northeast quadrant of the peaceful Dutch city of Delft, leveling its modest houses, damaging ...