A highly talked about painting will remain in the UK following a temporary stop to prevent it from leaving the country. The painting — which was created by an unknown artist — depicts the portraits of ...

Airbrushing and beauty filters may feel like a modern phenomenon, but conservation work to a portrait painted in the 17th century has revealed that touch-ups to images are nothing new. English ...

Around the turn of the 17th century, the Dutch artist Johanna Koerten sold a “sublime work consisting of flowers, arms, eagles [and] crowns, decorated in foliage, of woven silk in a rustic manner,” to ...

For years, a 17th-century portrait of a child hid on the back of a door in an English cottage that was crammed with antiques, rarely seen even by the eccentric collector who lived there. Now, ...

Helena Bonham Carter provides an English-language tour of the Rijksmuseum's miniature masterpiece, which stands at about six ...

Step into the Dutch Golden Age at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. The new exhibition, “Art and Life in Rembrandt ...

Police are appealing for information on how two original paintings from 17th century European artists, ended up in a roadside dumpster in southeast Germany. Police are appealing for information on how ...

Another groundbreaking discovery in science was the discovery of the cell by Robert Hooke (1635-1703). The iconic image of the breakthrough, published in the first scientific bestseller, 1665’s ...

Conservators found that a portrait of aristocrat Diana Cecil had been modified to have larger lips and a smaller forehead long after the original was completed. English Heritage’s paintings ...

“Egyptian Pharaohs: From Cheops to Ramses II:” On view through March 31. Tickets start at $45 for adults; $35 for seniors, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A 17th century portrait by Dutch-born painter Peter Lely of a semi-naked English royal mistress goes on sale in July with a price tag of up to two million pounds ($4 million).