Imagine that you are floating inside the center of a very large transparent sphere, like Leonardo’s Vitruvian man above. T...

Landscape with Hagar and the Angel , John Constable  There's an anecdote about Constable that shows, apocryphally or not, how revo...

Rubens painted a set of massive canvases (including two measuring 28 x 20 feet and two others at 40 x 10 feet) for the ceiling of the B...

Portrait of a woman attributed to Ghirlandaio. In case you’re thinking that Florence sounds like a good first stop when you build t...

The shelves over at Surface Fragments. Hey readers, I sent out a request on my Facebook page for people to send me photos of their sh...