A collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental science.

“These paintings – if accurate – provide potentially valuable information about landscapes and forests in the mid-1800s, but up till now, the use of 19th-century landscape art in historical ...

An Oregon State University-led collaboration of ecologists and art historians has demonstrated that landscape paintings from more than 150 years ago can advance environmental science.

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The “Natural Histories” exhibit at Yale University Art Gallery reflects on human’s impact on nature over time through 19th century landscapes.

You can view three 19th-century paintings with deep cultural and historical importance to Hawaii that are rarely accessible to the public.

Forgotten painting by a 19th-century French rebel is discovered at Penn Gustave Courbet’s “The Source of the Lison” was lost in a forgotten box for over a century. Now it’s the centerpiece of an ...

The Art Institute of Chicago has two works on display by one of the world's great landscape painters, J.M.W. Turner, born 250 years ago.

(New York Jewish Week) – A hyper-realistic 19th-century painting of worshippers at the Western Wall that spent many forgotten years in a synagogue’s storage room is headed to auction at ...

The Old Masters comprise a range of portraits, landscapes, mythological and history subjects, from Italian, British, Dutch and Flemish artists. Notable highlights include a view of Carisbrooke Castle ...