Many of the Gallery's early Italian paintings were originally parts of altarpieces, which are several paintings grouped in one large panel to adorn an altar. The altarpiece first appeared in Italy in the thirteenth century as new attention was focused on

The Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture was established in 1648 to centralize control over the arts, and in eighteenth-century France it dominated artistic life. Only members could receive royal commissions or participate in the official Salons, the A

Sophisticated Europeans from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries deemed "history painting" to be the supreme achievement in the visual arts. In addition to imaginatively re-creating actual events from the past, history paintings also il

This exhibition is the first devoted entirely to Remington's nocturnes and includes 29 paintings filled, surprisingly, with color and light--moonlight, firelight, and candlelight.

The painted turtle, also known as the Chrysemys' picta, is one of the wetland's most common reptiles. This animal can be located by its colorful shell. It's sometimes hard to spot, though, because it's very shy and reclusive. Like many turtles, it depends