Julian Barnes has said that “it doesn’t really matter whether an artist has a dull or an interesting life, except for promotional purposes.” Well, lucky for the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa – ...

In her new book, Twelve Paintings, writer Tal Sterngast explores Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, which is known for an exceptional collection of European paintings. She lands on twelve paintings from the ...

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Marie Antoinette with a Rose, 1783, oil on canvas, 116.8 x 88.9 cm. Lynda and Stuart Resnick. Portrait painting exhibitions rarely draw in the big crowds, but this ...

I misread the title of this new account of the life and art of Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) as “Darling” and thus, momentarily, feared it would perpetuate the caricature of the French ...

The Ahmanson Foundation has acquired its first major European painting for the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, a year after unveiling a new formal relationship to help build the ...

There’s no way that the men who saw these two nudes did not, in their little Homo erectus brains, imagine that they might just be getting an undressed glimpse of the artist who painted them. Women ...

Maligned by feminists and macho critics, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was a maverick In late 18-century France, when only men could train at the prestigious École des Beaux Arts, Elisabeth Louise ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When a blockbuster calls, truth in advertising is the first victim. The Met subtitles its dazzling Vigée Le Brun show ...

Artist: Elizabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun (1755-1842), friend and favourite artist of Marie- Antoinette, and the most stylish portrait painter in France on the eve of the Revolution. Distinguishing ...