With his ‘Boy Drinking,’ Annibale Carracci helped usher in the genre style Today, when we are used to seeing images of every conceivable kind in every medium and at every scale, it is hard to imagine ...

In the early 17th century, the Italian artist Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) was commissioned by the wealthy Spanish banker, Juan Enríquez de Herrera, to decorate his family chapel in Rome. The artist ...

These days, the mythological figure of Hercules—son of Zeus, slayer of hydras, cleaner of famously filthy stables—is associated with heroic demonstrations of strength. But for a good part of the past ...

Nudity started being an important subject in art in ancient Greece. The male body was celebrated at sports competitions or religious festivals, it was seen as a symbol of the best aspects of humanity.

40 x 30.2 cm. (15.7 x 11.9 in.) By whom donated to Jean de Sellon, Seigneur d'Allaman and Count of the Holy Roman Empire (1736–1810), Switzerland, by 1795; By descent to his son, Count Jean-Jacques de ...

Annibale Carracci's frescoed ceiling in Rome's Palazzo Farnese - home of the French Embassy - is to be restored, it has been announced. Thought to be one of the most influential Renaissance ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...