In Boston, a bodhisattva who assists others in their spiritual journey.
Sir John Soane’s Museum in London expresses the Grand Tour’s centrality to British culture.
Edith Wharton’s ‘The Age of Innocence’ is a compelling yet sophisticated challenge to American individualism.
In Pieter de Hooch’s painting, the artist has represented, and extended, a mother’s care with his own.
The painting features a Harlequin’s hat but a circus performer’s outfit. Now a museum has uncovered the curious work’s history using high-tech tests.
In ‘The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit,’ John Singer Sargent upended conventions with inspiration from Velázquez.
How Louis Armstrong turned a song about the vicious exploits of a murderer in 18th-century London into a jazz hit.
Andrei Tarkovsky’s sci-fi ‘Stalker’ is a pertinent exploration of emotion’s power in the face of desolation.
Greco-Roman touches abound in Henry Marquand’s Steinway grand piano, ornamented by Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
Marcel Pagnol’s Marseille Trilogy—‘Marius,’ ‘Fanny‘ and ‘César’—tells a story filled with comedy and emotion, realism and poetry.
‘The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket,’ by Eastman Johnson, is a beautifully realized vision of community.
Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’ serves as a reminder that time mocks us all.
Mary Cassatt’s ‘Little Girl in a Blue Armchair’ (1878), a supremely sensitive image of childhood, also bears the mark of Edgar Degas.
Among many art historians, Enguerrand Quarton’s ‘Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon’ is considered the greatest artwork of 15th-century France.
In the wake of an earthquake, a house of worship rises, cardboard tubes and all.
Caravaggio’s ‘The Martyrdom of St. Ursula’ (1610) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art shows the Baroque master unusually tender, fluid and restrained
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ was a rare narrative departure for dancemaker George Balanchine.
James Hilton’s ‘Lost Horizon’ captures the cultural apprehension widely felt in the early 1930s.
Titian portrait of ‘Doge Andrea Gritti’ is in almost the same condition as the day it left the artist’s studio.
Eugène Delacroix’s ‘Death of Sardanapalus’ confounded and scandalized his contemporaries.
Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67, once likened to Lego, proposed a new design for living
John La Farge’s ‘The Resurrection of Christ’ offers a revolutionary approach to an ancient medium.
George Eliot’s ‘Daniel Deronda’ is filled with sympathy, tact and uncommon insight.
Paul Rudolph’s Walker Guest House offers the security of a cave with the joy of a pavilion.
Stepwells were used for water, worship, refuge, relaxation and more—Chand Baori is considered the deepest and one of the oldest.