John Singer Sargent's most iconic portrait Madame X was the scandal of the 1884 Paris Salon. Here's the story behind the ...

Her take on Édouard Manet’s celebrated ... sexuality and blackness in art history, especially given the complicated role of black bodies in 19th-century paintings. Often working from her ...

Up on the second floor, in a long, redwalled room devoted to 19th-century French paintings ... Impressionists from Manet to Degas, and modernists like Chagall and Giacometti.

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo ...

In letters home to his brother, ones promptly published in the New-York Observer, Morse wrote that “the impressions of interior views are Rembrandt perfected… no painting or engraving ever ...

which uncannily suggests the late Rembrandts of a century later. But none has quite the pathos of what was likely his very last painting, “Pietà” (1575-76), planned to mark his own tomb in ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

‘There is this intense rise in fascism’: Simon McBurney on a 19th-century opera that feels painfully familiar on facebook (opens in a new window) ‘There is this intense rise in fascism ...