His years illustrating pulp novels honed his sense of pictorial drama, and his meticulous research ensured historical accuracy, notably in his Civil War paintings.

See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

Twentieth-Century Nudes from Tate,” an exhibition including major modern artists, reveals the connection between our naked ...

Michael West, a little-known Abstract Expressionist woman painter, is finally getting the spotlight at New York's Hollis ...

The Munson Museum of Art, located in downtown Utica, has recently announced what it describes as "the greatest acquisition in 75 years." ...

Some Chicago murals “are political, and some are purely beautiful, and most are somewhere in between," artist Cyd Smillie says.