The jeweler Pierre Dubail’s abstract work has been set onto a jeweled butterfly brooch. By Kathleen Beckett The term art jewelry is bandied about a lot, typically referring to jewelry of a sculptural ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The National Museum of Asian Art, ...

Catalogue of an Exhibition by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, of Choice Paintings Loaned from Private Galleries of Philadelphia, and Hans Makart's Great Picture of "Venice Paying Homage to ...

When the butterfly emerged from its pupa, Robert Reed was stunned. It was a Gulf fritillary—a bright-orange species with a few tigerlike stripes. But this butterfly had no trace of orange anywhere. It ...

Every year, for millions of years, a huge number of painted lady butterflies have migrated thousands of miles across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Though they've been a common sight throughout ...

For many years, a 19th century painting of three white children in a Louisiana landscape held a secret. Beneath a layer of overpaint meant to look like the sky: the figure of an enslaved youth.

In October 2013 a researcher made a surprising discovery of Painted Lady Butterflies on the Atlantic beaches of French Guiana -- a species not typically found in South America. This unusual sighting ...

Perhaps you spotted them on La Cienega, flitting north by the thousands near the Westfield mall. Maybe you saw them in Santa Anita, crossing a quiet residential street in a thick, fluttering line. For ...