Fragrant with cloves, cumin and cinnamon, this pasta dish arrived on the Ionian island of Corfu with 14th-century Venetian ...

Venetian red got its name because historically this pigment was produced from natural clays found near Venice, Italy. The clays contained an iron oxide compound that produced this red color. But as ...

Henri Matisse’s interior “The Red Studio” (1911), at roughly 6 feet tall by 7 feet wide, is monumental yet intimate—somewhere between picture and picture window.

Even the Venetian red that Matisse uses will appear in another major painting, “Large Red Interior” (1948). which is on display at MoMa; and the red itself will go on to influence painters ...