At the J. Paul Getty Museum, “Sur le motif: Painting in Nature Around 1800” takes viewers back to a time before TV, movies and photographs, when looking at hand-painted pictures of faraway ...

View ITALIAN SCHOOL circa 1800 The incredulity of Saint Thomas Black stone 22.5 x 27.5 cm Pitting From an engraving by Giovanni Battista Pasqualini, of a work by Le Guerchin (Circa 1800) By Italian ...

"We can now fully enjoy all the nuances, all the subtleties, the enormous beauty that Caravaggio expresses through his version of the Ecce Homo," David Garcia Cueto, head of the department of pre-1800 ...

Crafted by the Italian painter between 1618 and 1619, Moses was in the possession of a 17th-century Roman Catholic cardinal and his descendants until the 1800s when its whereabouts became unknown.

Just before cameras transformed the Italian countryside into a 3-D postcard, painters from the rest of Europe worked to capture the magic of the landscape. Without the benefits of photography ...