“I painted part of the day today, while it was snowing continually: you would have laughed to see me entirely white, my beard covered in icy stalactites,” wrote Claude Monet in an 1895 letter to a ...

Artists like Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hendrick Avercamp documented locals’ resilience in the face of freezing winters and food shortages Tim Brinkhof During the Little Ice Age, which spanned ...

Winter scene depicting a view looking past rows of snow-covered railroad tracks toward a house standing by itself with power lines stretching across the sky overhead. In the distance clouds of smoke ...

Today, we bring you a new installment of our focus challenges, in which we ask you to spend uninterrupted time looking at one piece of art. We’ll now feature these on the first Monday of each month — ...