The Lady with the Dog is a title that I borrowed from Chekhov’s short story. While Chekhov’s story revolves around an affair, in the realm of art, dogs have frequently symbolized fidelity.

A man sculpture displayed at the "Boldini -Master of the Belle Époque Painting Exhibition" on July 19. [Photo/Chinanews.com] The "Boldini-Master of the Belle Époque Painting Exhibition" opened at the ...

The painter Giovanni Boldini, born in Ferrara in 1842 and making his life in Paris, where he died in 1931, epitomized in his work the elegance and dash that characterized the moment when the ...

THE ITALIAN artist Giovanni Boldini was one of the most fashionable portrait painters of his day. Like his contemporary John Singer Sargent he had the gift of making his sitters look elegant and ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1378, Clark Institute edition): I love the way the slightest variation between two works of art can make all the difference to how they work. At the Clark Art Institute, in ...

I stumbled into a secret the other day. Or at least I think I did. I cannot be absolutely sure. I had gone to the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, to look at ...

Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 20, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010, Gallerie d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea and Museo Giovanni Boldini, Ferrara, Italy, and Feb. 14-Apr. 25, 2010, Sterling and ...

When is a reportedly mutilated portrait by one of the greatest society artists of all time worth close to $100,000? When it’s Giovanni Boldini’s 1890s oil-on-canvas of the Broadway actress and future ...

The son of a minor painter and restorer in Ferrara, Giovanni Boldini arrived in 1862 in Florence, where he enrolled in the Accademia. He soon came into contact with the Macchiaioli, a group of artists ...

Two ladies observe a painting of a child at the "Boldini -Master of the Belle Époque Painting Exhibition" on July 19. [Photo/Chinanews.com] To help audiences better appreciate the artwork, the ...