Attendance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art reached 5,240,000 visitors during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2010.

"All kinds of aesthetic decisions are taken that make the jump from an observation to a work of art."

Artist Ali Banisadr reflects on Hieronymus Bosch's _The Adoration of the Magi_ in this episode of The Artist Project.

By the end of the fifteenth century, Venice dominated the publishing market, with a majority of the books printed in Europe issuing from her presses.

Saint-Gaudens’ contribution to American Renaissance art and culture must be measured not only as a master sculptor of works large and small, public and private, but also as a gifted teacher, arbiter of taste, and professional role model for a succeeding generation of French-trained American sculptors.

Curator Keith Christiansen introduces readers to a new addition to The Met's collection of European Paintings: Stefano da Verona's The Crucifixion.

Jeanne Hallée was a Parisian lingerie and couture house in operation from 1870 to 1924 with a reputation for making the finest lingerie coveted by both American and European clientele.

While the origin of many concepts, practices, and monuments can be traced to earlier periods, it was during the Old Kingdom that they developed into the forms that would characterize and influence the rest of pharaonic history.