https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/254587 From 4,700 years ago comes this sophisticated, slightly abstract marble sculpture of seated man playing harp, & maybe singing. It was originally painted, & is one of the earliest-known...
The dangers of art have long had the attention of philosophers and politicians. These engravings by Thomas Landseer in John Shaw’s ‘Plates of distorted spines’ (1824) highlight the dangers of...
‘Tristan and Isolde’ by Edmund Blair Leighton (1902) Posted by Dorothy Lander Legend tells of Isolde who fell in love with Tristan, the nephew of her husband the King of...
Wellcome Library contributed this etching by Willem van der Leeuw (1603-1665) after Rembrandt from their collection on Twitter on Jan. 24, 2019, with this caption: The boy David playing the...
The virtuoso boy harpist Master Joseph Tudor Hughes (1827-1841), Welsh musical infant prodigy who performed before royalty and at the White House. Alas he drowned in the Hudson River in...