Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable...

Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is something of an American success story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he...

The roaring twenties in Berlin
It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus...

The master of Japanese ukiyo-e
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition....

Alvar Aalto (1898–1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his...

Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing...

Walter Gropius, visionary of the Bauhaus and beyond
Walter Gropius (1883–1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding...

In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) has no small role to play. In his...

In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), busily plied...

From impossible staircases to tesselated birds, explore the graphic genius of M.C. Escher, master of quirky vantage points,...

The Old Man Mad about Painting.
Hokusai, the master who unleashed a tsunami on the art world.
Meet the artist whose majestic...

Sylvia... , Uta...

Inspired by the development of Cubism, the Futurist movement was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with...

Painter, inventor, architect, scientist, and engineer: Leonardo da Vinci stands to this day as one of the most accomplished human...

In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art...

Vermeer's women, their duties and unspoken dreams
The 35 paintings that have come down to us from the hand of Jan Vermeer...

Discover the shimmering and sensual oeuvre of Gustav Klimt, the Austrian symbolist painter who polarized the art world by...

As cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) remain some of the most enduring enigmas...

The king of the contemplative landscape
The beauty of nature and man’s loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar...

August Macke (1887-1914) quickly ascended to notoriety, only to be killed at the tender age of 27 at the start of World War I....

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) never left his homeland of the Netherlands but in his massive body of painting, drawing, and...

When art went Whaam!

American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) pioneered a new epoch in American art, bursting onto a...

Pierre Koenig’s modern materials

There are few images of 20th-century architecture more iconic than the nighttime view of Case...

Louis Isadore Kahn and a luminous modernist language

Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974) treated each building like a temple....

Fiell... , Fiell...

The life and work of Glasgow School pioneer Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Scottish architect, designer, and painter Charles Rennie...

Changing the course of 20th-century art

When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) declared it to...

The onset of Expressionism
In the German city of Dresden on June 7, 1905, the foundation of the Die Brucke artists’ group...

A colorful exploration of the life and work of Gerhard Richter
An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened...

Hagen... , Hagen...

From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes...

Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual...

Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and...