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

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

In the late 19th century, several female French painters left their mark on the Impressionist movement with their talent and artistic vision. Long overlooked, they are now rightfully being brought ...

The US economy grew rapidly in the late ... after the painting was in place. Trump has about 20 portraits in the Oval Office. They include Andrew Jackson, his initial, unusual 19th-century ...

Photo: Paul J. RICHARDS / AFP/File In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, ...

Through her work, Toranzo Jaeger engages in a pointed critique of the systems of production and circulation that define late ... paintings pay homage to the Catholic altars of 14th- and 15th ...

They studied hundreds of historical texts and their mood boards took inspiration from Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s paintings of deities and affluent 19th-century families. Their most valuable ...

Fashion loves a flower, from Christian Dior's rosettes and Chanel's camellias to Mary Quant's coo-coo-ca-choo daisies and Laura Ashley's prairie patterns. The Spring 2025 runways planted a few more in ...

The bones of a 19th-century toddler show medical experimentation was taking place during the industrialization of France. Zinn, et al (2025) International Journal of Paleopathology The Industrial ...

Our list of 10 contemporary art controversies provides examples of each, as it examines the efficacy of boundary-pushing in the 21st century. Read more about "Art in the 21st Century" here. More from ...

The return of the 1654 oil painting will mark the latest triumph for a special panel set up by the UK government to investigate such works that have ended up in Britain’s public collections. More from ...

Tate Britain is set to return a 17th century painting to the family of a Jewish Belgian art collector. The work by Henry Gibbs, titled Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy, was taken from ...