Recognizing flower forms may help you to cash in on fine art. Flowers have been important subjects in fine art for centuries. ... During the Dutch Baroque period (circa 1580-1700), ...

“Flowers” was painted around 1660 and is the only painting signed by Porpora, who specialized in floral still lifes. It is valued at $1.5 million, The Guardian reported .

The lily is one of the most recognisable and symbolically rich flowers in world culture. Its history dates back to ancient ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Italy’s pantheon of celebrated artists is very crowded. Still, in ...

Forty 16th and 17th century Baroque paintings by artists including Titian and El Greco, loaned from a museum in Italy, are on display in the Hong Kong Museum of Art’s ‘The Road to the Baroque ...

A Baroque painting that was lost in the Second World War is returning to a Bavarian museum after the FBI recovered it from the relative of an American soldier who had served in the occupying ...

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A Baroque masterpiece valued at £9.2m has been saved for the nation after an anonymous buyer stepped in to prevent it going overseas. Saint John the Evangelist, painted by Italian master ...

Recognizing flower forms may help you to cash in on fine art.Flowers have been important subjects in fine art for centuries. Renaissance artists painted flowers as both the main subject and the ...