When Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper, he provisioned Christ and his apostles with a meal fit for Renaissance nobility. Instead of limiting himself to a menu of bread and wine – or even the ...

His book Watercress was awarded the 2022 Caldecott Medal, conferred by the American Library Association as a top honor to one artist of an American picture book for children each year. Written by ...

In the early 20th century, artists experimented with color and less realistic dimensions, and mixed the worlds of Eastern and Western mythologies. Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen, working in Europe ...

In the 1834 article “Les Aquarelles” published in the French journal L’Artiste, the author demonstrates his country’s disdain for the medium by asking archly: “Did Raphael and Michelangelo paint ...

Some 20 watercolor illustrations featuring Jiangnan elements and culture of towns along the Grand Canal will meet the public online in the exhibition Shuiyun Liuguang on Zhiliao Online Exhibition ...

Most of the time, my colleague Irena Hwang works with numbers. An electrical engineer by training, she wrangles impossible data sets into intelligible sentences that word-bound people like me can ...

A long-lost work of Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen is being published for the first time, evoking all the magic of this legendary collection of... In the early 20th century, artists experimented with ...