“For me, painting the crosses was a way of painting the country,” recalled Georgia O’Keeffe about the series of compositions featuring Catholic crosses that she created upon visiting the Southwest in ...

The front (obverse) of this coin depicts the God Eros. On the back (reverse), the headdress of the goddess Isis is shown.

The unidentified man in this over-life-size headless portrait statue is dressed in full military regalia. His torso is covered with a body armor called a cuirass, the front side of which is adorned ...

The front of this coin depicts the head of the goddess Juno, facing right. On the back, a bull charges to the right.

In the Roman world, portraits were often recarved in order to alter the sculpture’s function, meaning, or identity. It is possible that this portrait head was altered at a later date because it ...

Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault Portrait of a Man, 1818/19 Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault Sketches of Postillions and a Stagecoach, 1818/19 Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault A Stagecoach ...

The front (obverse) of this coin depicts a female head, facing left, with a triple drop earring, necklace and wreathed. The back (reverse) of this coin depicts a horse standing to the right, date palm ...

Walker Evans is perhaps best known for his dispassionate photographs of the American South during the Depression. It was during a 1933 assignment in Havana, Cuba, however, that he truly honed his eye ...

As part of the Art Institute’s presentation of art and artists who engage with the ideas and of Pan-Africanism, the museum is screening Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s 2021 film The Crow, the Trench and the ...

A gaunt young man kneels with his head lowered and his arms wrapped tightly around himself. His posture indicates physical and psychological self-enclosure, but it is unclear whether the composition ...