Kara Lysandra Ross

Born in Surrey, England, in 1871, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1871–1945) was a well-respected illustrator and painter of her day. ...

There are a few rare major masterpieces in this world that are equal to William Bouguereau’s “La Jeunesse ...

Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846 – 1909), is known among scholars as one of William Bouguereau’s top students.  Although ...

The Art Renewal Center (ARC), a non-profit educational foundation dedicated to realist art and skill-based training techniques, has ...

Apart from the artists who were given varying degrees of administrative power in the French Academies, there were ...

Unlike either classical or academic painting, in which the artist indirectly arrives at the completion of a work ...

Apart from the École des Beaux-Arts, there were other important and influential academy schools. Many of them, including ...

Until 1848, the Paris Salon was held in the Louvre, which many complained kept the masterpieces of the ...

As you will read later on in this series, academy and atelier schools were first opened to women ...

It is impossible to look at French art in the nineteenth century without examining what is known as ...

Whether in France, England, Germany, Italy, Spain, America, or anywhere in the modern world during the 1800s, the ...

It is not possible to understand 19th century art without looking at the types of paintings exhibited at ...

As the most prestigious realist art competition in the Americas, and perhaps the world, the International ARC (Art Renewal ...

Fred Ross, chairman of the Art Renewal Center, will be speaking at the ARC Salon Exhibition on Jan. 20 at ...

The Art Renewal Center, a non-profit educational foundation dedicated to the renewal of traditional training technics in the ...

George Elgar Hicks (1824–1914) is one of those artists, well appreciated among 19th century Victorian scholars, but virtually ...

The Art Renewal Center, a nonprofit educational foundation dedicated to the renewal of traditional training techniques in the ...

The Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Fla. will be holding an exhibition titled Bouguereau’s Fancies: Allegorical and Mythological ...

Every year the Art Renewal Center, a non-profit educational foundation dedicated to the re-appreciation of traditional art and ...

In the first decades of the 1800s, revolutions spread across Europe inspired by the American and French revolutions ...

The Representational Art Conferences (TRAC), organized by Michael Pearce, Michael Lynn Adams, and others, including Cindy Keitel, Jeff ...

Although William Bouguereau (1825–1905), painted the Madonna and Child several times throughout his career, there are two versions ...

The Art Renewal Center, a non-profit educational foundation dedicated to the return of realism and traditional training techniques ...

Like Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Edmund Blair Leighton (English, 1852–1922) paid tremendous attention to detail in his work. Leighton ...

As those familiar with the Art Renewal Center and its mission know, the organization is involved in numerous ...

Kennington often painted, like many of his contemporaries, the plight of the impoverished and destitute in order to ...

With an approximate 2,000 entries this year by over 850 artists, the competition was more competitive than ever.