Adrien Brody has received due attention for his acting abilities: his Oscar-winning performance in last year's film The ...

The Franz Hals Portrait of a Man holding a Skull is interesting for being an early work, and for that memento mori which you don’t usually get with his solid citizens later. The Rubens is ...

Back then, the church commissioned most of the portraits of babies and children. And they didn’t want just any old baby—they wanted the baby Jesus (or other biblical kids). Medieval artists ...