On view at the Portland Art Museum this summer from the Brooklyn Museum’s renowned European art collection, Monet to Matisse: French Moderns showcases approximately 60 works of art considered to be ...

The portrait by a French court painter is one of three displayed in a photo that came to depict the efforts of a U.S. Army unit that tracked legions of looted art. By Nina Siegal It appears ...

And yet, the style is far from one-note. Doctor or grifter, Watteau’s self-portrait remains in character, reinforcing the dissonance between ensemble and protagonist. Directing his devious smile ...

The 18th-century portrait of the Bard has been taken down and placed in storage in a move that has prompted concerns about “philistinism”. The Telegraph has revealed that portraits depicting ...

The 18th-century portrait of the Bard by Louis Francois Roubiliac has been taken down and placed in storage, according to the Telegraph. The newspaper previously said portraits of Elizabeth I ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.

The adult sitters in this family portrait are elegantly dressed in stately black fabrics with white collars, in keeping with the fashion of the period. In the seventeenth century, Haarlem’s textile ...

"I was so happy when the National Portrait Gallery asked me if they could loan the piece. "It's very important to me to support the arts. Being in their new History Makers section is an honour." ...

The answer is to think of the Prado more as a museum of artists than of art: whole multi-room galleries are devoted to Diego Velázquez, the Spanish 17th-century master; to Francisco de Goya and his ...