Much attention has been paid recently to the life of the Italian Baroque master, Artemisia Gentileschi—specifically, her rape, her torture with thumb screws while testifying during the trial of ...

Jean Baptiste Greuze was a French painter best known for his portraits, genre scenes, and history paintings. Greuze’s work was known for having sentimental and sometimes titillating subject matter, as ...

The Post examined more than 400 statues, paintings and other artworks in the U.S. Capitol. This is what we found. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please ...

Today, nearly 1,000 Fayum paintings exist in collections in Egypt and at the Louvre, the British and Petrie museums in London, the Metropolitan and Brooklyn museums, the Getty in California and ...

Humans were more or less comparable to you and me.” Yet the lack of older paintings may not reflect the true history of rock art so much as the fact that they can be very difficult to date.

The most important wall paintings in the Abbey are from the late 13th century i.e. the figure of St Faith in her chapel and the figures of Christ with St Thomas and St Christopher in the south ...