A generation ago, Madrid’s Prado Museum was an off-the-beaten-track treasure trove of Western art. Now, with annual attendance exceeding three million people, it has become one of Europe’s ...

Van der Weyden’s depiction of Saint Luke is a meditation on attention as much as painting I often study the expression on the face of Saint Luke in this masterpiece by Rogier van der Weyden at ...

In his pioneering study of early Renaissance painting in the Netherlands, scholar Walter Friedländer characterized Rogier van der Weyden (c. 1400-1464/65) as an “inventor.” Rogier’s “Descent From the ...

Mme M. Th. Dovillée has discovered an important Spanish document, from which an interesting passage is published here in a French translation. Vicente Alvárez, in his Relation du voyage que le Prince ...