Around 1800, London-based published Samuel William Fores continued the playful tradition of composite portraiture in a series ...

This brief chapter of art history is often overlooked. Now, an exhibition in New York City makes a strong argument for the ...

Ashmolean saves Fra Angelico masterpiece for the public, launching the museum as world-leading centre for the study of ...

The “Mona Lisa,” painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the early 16th century, is undoubtedly one of the most famous artworks in the world. Housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris, this captivating portrait ...

Monday, Nov. 18 and 19, 2024 from 8 - 10 p.m. / PBS app. This is a two-part, four-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, ...

Mary and Saint Luke are the figures in the foreground, placed on both sides of the composition, while the two more miniature ...

Alexander Anufriev, a nonconformist artist from the Soviet Union who, after surviving a devastating earthquake in his 20s, spent decades making expressive, brightly colored paintings of a single ...

Art, as a mirror of society, evolves dynamically over time . Movements, or ldquo;isms rdquo;, influence one another through reactions, innovations, and reinterpretations .

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help ...

Nora Holt was a pioneer of Chicago’s Black classical music scene. A friend of Josephine Baker, she later became a blues ...

In the Legion of Honor’s Renaissance gallery, a new 400-year-old acquisition sparkles with a vibrancy belying its age. San Francisco is the new home to Lavinia Fontana’s 400-year-old painted “Portrait ...

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.