PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The exhibition is called From the Schuylkill to the Hudson: Landscapes of the Early American Republic. and it tells the untold story of Philadelphia's leading role in creating a ...

From its earliest beginnings as a colonized territory, Louisiana has always been seen as a land apart. Its landscapes, tangled with vegetation and dense with waterways, were alternately viewed as ...

There are many variations to look for in scenes of landscape paintings, particularly in images that depict sunset, twilight and moonlight.

Take any major historical Western art movement from the 16th century through today and you can bet women played an important role. Until the last handful of years, you can also bet that male scholars ...

Without the Schuylkill River School, there may never have been a Hudson River School, says the curator of a Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts exhibit. Thomas Birch, Fairmount Water Works 1821.

In the 1780s, French painter Pierre Henri de Valenciennes produced a landscape of the Channel coast. To do so, he painted not from memory or from a sketch, but directly from the source—by stepping ...

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Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

Whether it's Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, or ancient humans' lustrous cave paintings, the creation of art is an inherently human story. By applying a ...

Wielding paints, canvases, and creative eyes, artists reveal how to see—and document—nature and cities. Artist Tim Wilson paints on the Maine Coast as part of a yearlong project documenting the ...