New research into the life of a Black child servant in an 18th century portrait reveals how he became a musician for the ...

There is a portrait at the Metropolitan Museum of Art unlike any other ... The work is thought to date from the reign of ...

Others have had plenty to say about the king, who ruled from around 1353 B.C. until 1336 B.C. and tried to transform Egyptian religion, art, and governance. Akhenaten’s successors were mostly ...

Witkacy decided to give up ‘pure’ or entirely artistic painting for what he considered ‘applied’ art – creating portraits on commission. In order to become a successful portraitist, he founded the S.I ...

Self-Portrait with Monkey, 1938, Oil on masonite, 16" x 12", Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York In October 1938, Frida staged her first one-woman exhibition at the Levy Gallery ...

The little blurry lines, the hazy textures, the portrait-like feel, it was all a whiff of fresh air in the art world. And Impressionism continues to be a beautiful art medium that mesmerises ...

We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted. Today, we bring you our fifth and final focus ...

The Smithsonian’s museums display objects from our collections that span the breadth of art and design from the ancient to the modern-day, from the whimsical to the practical. Along with our ...

The art world of the 1960s was starkly different from today’s resolutely commercial scene. In his memoir “Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man,” Michael Findlay remembers the time ...

The painting, Portrait of a Lady, was taken from a gallery in the northern city of Piacenza in 1997. It was thought to have disappeared for good until gardeners clearing away ivy found it ...

The campaign, incredibly, agreed to do a live-portrait session during Olivia Nuzzi ... it was all information that I could put into the painting,” she says. “Do you draw?” ...

The painting is clearly an interested yet not… quite convincing free copy after Dürer’s famous Self-Portrait at 28 in the Prado.” The Hargesheimer work is, in broad strokes, comparable to ...