The Art Institute’s wide-ranging collection is a testament to thousands of years of human creativity and artistic ...

Charles Sheeler was both a painter and a photographer of architecture and industrial forms in the highly detailed Precisionist style. In 1927, Sheeler was commissioned to photograph Ford Motor Company ...

Buddhist stone tablets known as votive steles were commissioned by pious individuals and families, and erected in temple courtyards and other public spaces. The horizontal registers on this stele ...

According to Roman history, the rape of the virtuous matron Lucretia by Tarquin, son of the king of Rome, incited the people to overthrow the monarchy and establish a republic around 510 BCE. Lucretia ...

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884–86, added painted border 1888–89 ...

During his popular cabaret performances, Aristide Bruant adopted the role of a social outsider who regularly criticized upper-class society and commented on current events with biting humor. Despite ...

Louis Sullivan, architect; for Dankmar Adler, Architect. Left: c.1885-1895 (view image); Right: 2006 (view image).

The two little circus girls in this painting are Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg, who performed as acrobats in the famed Cirque Fernando in Paris. Although they were depicted in the center of a ...

Rufino met a sympathetic soul in the artist and fellow Escuela Nacional student María Izquierdo.

James McNeill Whistler painted marine subjects throughout his career. For several years beginning in 1855, the expatriate American artist divided his time between London and Paris; in the latter, he ...

Frederic Remington crafted this scene of bloody confrontation for white audiences east of the Mississippi River, who imagined the West as a place of both danger and opportunity. An unseen Sioux ...

This portrait by French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres depicts the young count Amédée-David de Pastoret at 32 years old. One of several paintings he commissioned from Ingres, this portrait ...