[Fig. 1] Man In Armor, Rembrandt van Rijn, Oil on canvas, 54” x 41”, 1655 Apelles and the Birth of Illusionism: Ancient lessons in pa...

Here is a detail from the finished painting, enlarged because I used very small brushes. You can use any background you like. I use...

In the 1960s, the Italian architecture firm  Superstudio  proposed the eradication of all architectural difference under a ubiquitous gr...

Sommarnoje, Anders Zorn showing lengthened and broken reflections beneath the boat and pier. The post title is a tad misleading, as ...

Thomas Eakins' The Champion Single Sculls (1871) is a Realist masterpiece of balance and restraint. As a painter, he was famously me...

Praxinotropes use mirrors around a central column to reflect the inside of the drum. The "overlapping" images crea...