A founding member of the Prairie School, Mahony defined the movement’s now-familiar aesthetic for a global audience.

A working-class woman with artistic aspirations of her own, Siddal nearly died of pneumonia after posing for John Everett Millais’s iconic painting.

Renaissance painters incorporated the inherent qualities of stone to produce works of art that revealed the beauty of nature and hand of God.

There’s a specific term for these irregular pearls: “baroque,” from the Portuguese barroco.

The famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright famously loathed commercialism, and yet he (reluctantly) designed commercial homewares to be mass-produced.

The kimono that the world associates with Japan was actually created in the late-nineteenth century as a cultural identifier.

A hand-painted show card evokes a certain nostalgia and humanity that machine-made signs can never arouse: It suggests honesty.