The Mona Lisa hasn't always been a huge tourist attraction. It turns out the most famous painting in the world owes its ...

Mellon Collection The paintings of Vittore Carpaccio were the graphic novels of the Italian Renaissance ... with a talent for vivid details—a rich woman’s look of abject ennui, the gory ...

In colonial Latin America – called “New Spain” by European colonists – images of a white Jesus reinforced a caste system where white, Christian Europeans occupied the top tier, while those with darker ...

The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk the House at Tate Modern. 1 May - 19 October, £20.

Though his work was forgotten for centuries, Arcimboldo is enjoying a personal renaissance, with shows at major European museums. At the Louvre, a series of Arcimboldo paintings is among the most ...

Antoni Gaudí, architect of the Sagrada Família, is one step closer to becoming a saint after the Vatican recognized him for ...

The newly renovated Fifth Avenue institution, which houses a treasure trove by any calculation, is a time capsule with a lot ...

With its implication that the young woman isn’t as chaste as she should be, the marriage-prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative ...

Heroine of Art,” at the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris.

In 1594, a newly ordained young cardinal, Odoardo Farnese – the recent beneficiary of a tremendous fortune – commissioned the ...

The allure of finding lost art treasures is real, but proving authorship—and determining an artwork’s commercial value—can be ...