PAINTING, Picasso once said, is not made to decorate apartments; it is “an instrument of offensive and defensive warfare against the enemy.” And what is the enemy? Many things — not least, the dead ...

NEW YORK, April 17 (UPI) -- A Metropolitan Museum exhibit titled "Manet/Velazquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting" traces the influence of Spanish artists on 19th-century French artists as well ...

Philip III of Spain is one of history’s also-rans. Historians tend to treat his reign, from 1598 to 1621, as a kind of listless interval between that of his father Philip II, who consolidated Spain’s ...

Mary Cassatt (American, 1844–1926) 'Spanish Girl Leaning on a Window Sill' (circa 1872) Oil on canvas Manuel Piñanes García-Olías, Madrid Her plump lips, flushed cheeks, and direct gaze signal ...

The first retrospective on influential Spanish post-Impressionist Joaquín Sorolla to focus on his impact in the United States opens Saturday at the San Diego Museum of Art. Sorolla was well known in ...

The San Diego Museum of Art on Friday announced the acquisition of a major painting by one of the most important Spanish artists of the 17th century. The Museum said “The Visitation” by Juan de Valdés ...

This course is a survey of art in Spain from the discovery of the Americas in 1492 through the mid-seventeenth. This roughly 150-year period, known as the Spanish Golden Age or Siglo de Oro, witnessed ...

New York — For art, everyone knows that France was modernity’s launching pad. Now consider this: Modern French painting would have been nowhere without Spain. Absolutely nowhere. That is the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO – Walking around Balboa Park, the ...

Wyclef Jean has sold millions of records as a solo artist and as a founding member of the hip-hop group the Fugees. Still, few in the mainly Latin crowd seemed to recognize the Grammy-winner when he ...