states that the Lord made man "a little lower than the angels," and, "Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands and has out all things under his feet." Chinese art, particularly ...

Like his portraits of people, Egon Schiele’s landscape paintings are rarely pretty but often striking. Relatively early in his tragically short career — the Austrian artist died of influenza in 1918 ...

The two bodies in the 1914 painting “Man and Woman I (Lovers I)” are laid out horizontally, amid a landscape of twisted sheets and a carpet of earth. In repeated views of the same church tower ...