The art of painting has a rich, centuries-long history and serves as a perfect medium for artists to translate their feelings and ideas onto canvas. A crucial tool for any painter is indeed the ...
Now, restoration artist Gianfranco Pocobene and his team are delicately removing layers of paint to uncover four cherub-like angels painted by artist John Gibbs in the late 1720s. These angels had ...
The drama of the work seems to lie at the far right of the painting, where Priapus (the god of fertility) is disrobing the nymph Lotis. We would call that sexual assault, but the act is ...