An innovative painter in the early generation of Renaissance artists and one of the great enigmas of art history, Piero dell Francesca was also intimately knowledgeable about religious topics and a mathematician who wanted to use perspective and geometry to make painting a "true science." Piero live[...]
In the fateful year of 1913, events in New York and Paris launched a great public rivalry between the two most consequential artists of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. The New York Armory Show art exhibition unveiled Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, a "sensation of sen[...]