Something The Mona Lisa, David, and The School of Athens all have in common is they represent a way of thinking that was shaping and being shaped by the visual arts of that period. From the 14th ...

The birth of Jesus is mentioned in just two Gospels, Luke and Matthew. Mark and John refer to Jesus’ mother several times. The Evangelists were writing 40 to 65 years after Christ’s death and ...

Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...

Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso ... as she shares the distinctive chignon hairstyle that was fashionable in the French capital at the time. “She may forever be a sort of ...

The oldest known representation is on a sixth century diptych in Leningrad. From the very beginning, the paintings were modeled on the type used for the birth of Christ, where the mother is in a lying ...

Today, we bring you a new installment of our focus challenges, in which we ask you to spend uninterrupted time looking at one piece of art. We’ll now feature these on the first Monday of each ...

High school students from Boulder’s Watershed School took inspiration from the lives of seniors to create oil paintings for their Painting and Perception class. The paintings made by the ...

A show at the Guggenheim Museum highlights the early abstract movement, prominently featuring work by husband and wife Robert ...

Painting miniatures is a good ... Also, avoid enamel and other oil-based primers as they can be hard to clean up. You’ll also want to invest in some gloves, to keep your hands free of paint ...

We Who Are about to Die Salute You)” (1859), oil on canvas ... In the 19th century, other paintings such as French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme’s “Ave Caesar! Morituri te Salutant (Hail ...

An hour’s drive south of Paris, a small oil operation is causing a big stir as local officials fear an oil spill could threaten the water supplies of 180,000 inhabitants in the French capital ...

A Delhi court has ordered the seizure of two paintings by the late artist M F Husain, displayed at Delhi Art Gallery, as they were deemed offensive to Hindu deities. The court directed the ...