Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

Ancient Greece and Rome may have handed down the image of rosy-cheeked Cupids, but their myths about him explore the messier ...

Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its ...

A rare portrait by Bernardino de’ Conti, a peer of Leonardo da Vinci, set a record at Sotheby's Master Paintings auction.

His years illustrating pulp novels honed his sense of pictorial drama, and his meticulous research ensured historical accuracy, notably in his Civil War paintings. By Corey Kilgannon Mort ...

“Everywhere you go there are little chambers covered with stone carvings of folklore figures – nymphs, demons and devils. "When its niches and recesses were lit with candles and ...

By Siddhartha Mitter A jury found them guilty of conspiring as part of a crew to steal art, sports memorabilia ... traces the evolution of tarot from Renaissance Italy to the present day, with ...

Moretto canvas was on display in Brescia when the accident occurred. A 16th-century painting by Renaissance artist Moretto was damaged after a museum visitor in the northern Italian city of Brescia ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Adolfo Cipriani was an Italian Impressionist & Modern sculptor who was born in ...

George W. Bush‘s post-presidency painting career has always drawn a potent combination of ridicule and fascination, but rarely has the subject of who taught him to put brush to canvas come up ...

88.9 x 138.4 cm. (35 x 54.5 in.) ...