Portraits are one of the most popular and challenging forms of the genre. Making a photograph of someone, whether a known person or a stranger, is like trying to unravel their best traits within ...

A new exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam brings together a large collection of funeral paintings from post-Ptolemaic Egypt, some loaned from the Louvre and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

The institutions will jointly acquire the painting, with plans to send the work back and forth between the U.S. and U.K. Joshua Reynolds's Portrait of Omai on the move at Tate Britain. Photo: Matthew ...