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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever been to Paris, you know that there’s nothing like seeing the city in person. However, that’s no reason not to get a taste of it with some help from great artists. Marchesa Luisa Casati ...

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 ...

Society portrait painter: Not the most flattering of labels to wear as an artistic legacy, but it suited Giovanni Boldini just fine. It was, after all, how he chose to define himself at the height of ...

That’s why Boldini reads as the last gasp of the great illusionistic tradition of the Italian Renaissance – where we started our week at the Clark – and the Impressionists, working at the same time, ...

Giovanni Boldini was was born at Woodson's 40-acre Buckstud Farm near Charles Town, W.Va., where Woodson typically has about nine or ten mares. In recent years, besides sending his top mares to his ...

With her tongue ever so slightly in her cheek, Mrs. Chester Dale, collector and authority on French painting, helped organize four months ago an exhibition of the paintings of the late Alphonse ...

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 ...