Sandro Botticelli, born Alessandro di Mariano Filipe around the year 1445, spent the majority of his life living and working in Florence. He was very well known and celebrated during his lifetime and ...

Jean-Pierre Isbouts - one of National Geographic’s best-selling authors- has been studying and following Leonardo da Vinci’s paper trail for years. He’s written about the Italian’s career and legacy, ...

“I paint myself because I’m so often alone and because I am the subject I know best,” Frida Kahlo. Born and raised in Mexico to a German father and a Pacific Islander mother, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) ...

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was an American artist from the state of Wisconsin who specialised in depictions of enlarged flowers, skyscrapers and landscapes. She has been recognised at the “Mother of ...

The evidence comes from the Neumark-Nord 2 site in central Germany, dating back 125,000 years to an interglacial period when temperatures were similar to those of today. The site was situated in a ...

Born in Italy to American parents in 1865, John Singer Sargent trained in Italy, Germany and Paris and then settled in London where he gained a reputation as one of the world’s greatest portrait ...

Haring was born in Pensylvania, USA in 1958. From an early age, he loved to draw and create images, copying cartoon images that he saw around him. After leaving school, Haring attended the Ivy School ...

During the attack, he repeatedly hit the statue, tore her clothes off, and according to witnesses, placed the crown of the Virgin Mary on his own head. The 15th-century statue sustained minor damage.

Seated with her legs apart in front of three clergymen, the nun points her finger at one of them. The men, standing, hold their robes up to display their state of sexual arousal. The inscription Voilà ...

Every two years, Manifesta moves to a different European Host City or Region, engaging with local cultural, urban and environmental contexts while working collaboratively with citizens and communities ...

Promoter and founder of the museum Taxto Benet assured the unwanted closure is attributed to the losses caused by the protests of the SUT union in front of the building over the last four months. The ...

Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer, Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer, and Berlin's Senator for Culture Sahra Wedl-Wilson, representing the Governing Mayor, praised Parzinger's ...