Worthington Galleries

March 30, 2019

Because of the large auction houses (e.g. Sotheby's, etc.), the art world has largely accepted certain relatively new words to how artwork (and its authenticity) is described to potential bidders / buyers. The use of the term "attributed to," "Circle of," "Follower of," "Manner of," and so forth are now used systematically by auction houses.

17th Century Art

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli

December 1, 2018

As a student of Pietro da Cortona, Giovanni Francesco Romanelli was given a prestigious artistic debut by assisting the decoration of Rome’s Palazzo Barberini. Like his teacher, Romanelli was inducted into a group of artists supported by Pope Urban VIII and his nephew, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, whose patronage provided Romanelli with commissions throughout the churches and palaces of Rome and the Vatican. Characterized as espousing a classicized, restrained version of his master’s Roman Baroque style, Romanelli’s work possessed the richly decorative values of his teacher—often embellished with gilded stucco work—and yet with a subdued sense of energy. Upon the exile of the Barberini family, Romanelli accompanied his patrons to Paris, where he became a prominent artistic influence, commissioned to decorate the National Library and the summer apartments of the Queen Mother, Anne of Austria, within the Louvre.

20th Century Art

Army & Artist: American Artists Wage War From their Easels During WWI

June 22, 2018

Army & Artist: American Artists Wage War From their Easels During WWI. While soldiers fought in Europe during World War I, American artists and illustrators waged war from a different front—their easels. War Art, World War I, War Posters, War Related Illustrations.

18th Century Art

Timeline of the Revolutionary War

September 3, 2017

Complete Timeline of the American Revolutionary War: 1754 - 1788. Includes developments precipitating the War for Independence through to the Signing of the United States Constitution.

19th Century Art

CIVIL WAR BATTLE OF FORT DONELSON – FEBRUARY 15, 1862

January 21, 2017

After capturing Fort Henry on February 6, 1862, Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant advanced cross-country to invest Fort Donelson. On February 16, 1862, after the failure of their all-out attack aimed at breaking through Grant’s investment lines, the fort’s 12,000-man garrison surrendered unconditionally. This was a major victory for Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and a catastrophe for the South. It ensured that Kentucky would stay in the Union and opened up Tennessee for a Northern advance along the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. Grant received a promotion to major general for his victory and attained stature in the Western Theater, earning the nom de guerre “Unconditional Surrender.”

Ancient

Palmyra

August 26, 2016

In Palmyra, history is literally written on the walls: across temples and above doorways, encircling funerary monuments and snaking up the towering limestone columns that rise above the Syrian desert some

Ethnographic

Mayan Civilization

August 26, 2016

The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples, and noted for its hieroglyphic script and wonderful art and ceramic art —the only known fully developed writing system of the pre-Columbian Americas—as well as for its art, architecture, mathematics, calendar, and astronomical system. The Maya civilization developed in an area that encompasses southeastern Mexico, all of Guatemala and Belize, and the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador. This region consists of the northern lowlands encompassing theYucatán Peninsula, and the highlands of the Sierra Madre, running from the Mexican state of Chiapas, across southern Guatemala and onwards into El Salvador, and the southern lowlands of the Pacific littoral plain.

16th Century Art

Rubens masterpiece sets Christie’s record

July 25, 2016

An exceptional early work by Peter Paul Rubens, Lot and His Daughters, led Christie’s Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale on 7 July, realising £44,882,500 /$58,167,720 after an intense battle between four bidders which lasted for an electrifying 14 minutes.

19th Century Art

The Smart way to Invest in Fine Art

June 12, 2016

People who collect for the long term may get more for their money by adapting the strategies of value investing. That means forgetting contemporary and postwar works and looking for unfashionable or neglected pieces with intrinsic value.

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