the paintings’ unusual subject matter and the period’s social perceptions around destitution — a widespread, intractable condition in 18th-century Brescia. Poverty is fundamental to the ...

The newest round of acquisitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art includes “The Dutton Family ... Zoffany that places viewers inside a fancy 18th-century English drawing room where a card game ...

a curator of European painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, argues that 18th-century French art has too often been viewed through the lens of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de ...