Like many women artists of earlier centuries whose work has survived, Artemisia came from a family of artists. Born in Rome in 1593, she was the oldest and most artistically inclined child of the ...

Controversy followed after an artist's works were vandalized by a Greek MP, labeling them as blasphemous for distorting Christian icons.

Hands clasped in joy, face framed by a wimple, she could with equal élan propose that Dutch Golden Age painter Gerard ter ...

But, by the 1350s, its "most glorious years" would be "as good as over". The Black Death "halved" the city's population and ...

With his paintings of Ivory Coast's street kids, Aboudia has taken his teenage misfit mutiny to the very top, becoming one of the world's bestselling artists along the way. - 'Children of the street' ...

Visiting the National Gallery of Art in Washington during Lent is always an enriching experience, but a recently acquired ...

A mysterious formal portrait of an enslaved man named Frederick is expected to sell for as much as $500,000 at auction in New ...

In 1939, the Nazis forced her to give the state the painting for the equivalent of about $360 today. In exchange she was ...

Eschewing Persian version, Jewish Museum extends art curation scepter to masters like Rembrandt, who saw Esther's heroism ...

A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory ...

Witches, serenity and loneliness are recurring themes in her work, and she’s greatly inspired by Studio Ghibli's Hayao ...