1. The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (1610) It is believed to be one of the last works by Caravaggio. The Italian artist made it for Marcantonio Doria from Genoa. He was an art collector, and besides Caravaggio’s works, he owned pieces by prominent Renaissance artists like Raphael and Leonardo. Caravaggio...

The permanent and traveling exhibits of Holocaust Museum Houston (HMH) provide a thorough introduction to the history and tragedy of the Holocaust, thereby meeting the mission of the museum in a painstaking and meticulous manner. The mission statement itself is clear as well as succinct. It does not give any...

Ethics has always been a stumbling block in the sphere of arts. The challenge here is that art provokes and disturbs. Therefore, in some cases, it is perceived as immoral or unethical. For this reason, it is commonly questioned whether museums should develop comprehensive codes of ethics in order to...

The role of the museum in contemporary society is often difficult to explain. While some argue that museum serves an obvious educative function and that thinking regarding their role does not need to stretch past this, others argue that the museum should also be seen to represent dominant ideologies and...

One cannot but encounter the fact that a variety of art directions comes to directly allude to all the complexity of human beings and that each art work emerges to be far from being uniform in terms of visual elements and the context itself. Contemplating upon the tendencies in art,...