The “Mona Lisa,” painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the early 16th century, is undoubtedly one of the most famous artworks in the world. Housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris, this captivating portrait ...

Mona Lisa is recognized as the most expensive painting in the world. Nine artworks following behind, discover more on the ...

The portrait ... art. By Nina Siegal It appears, memorably, in a snapshot taken in May 1945 of American soldiers on the steps of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria — a painted portrait of a woman ...

For his first non-American subject, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns chose Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci.

For centuries, the faithful and the curious have crowded to gaze up at the Sistine Chapel's ceiling in awe of Michelangelo ...

On the cusp of the US possibly getting its first female President, this writer finds powerful women across Washington DC ...

Marlène Dumas is a renowned South African artist known for her captivating portraits that explore emotional states and human ...

Who is Dora Carrington? The Bloomsbury artist was well known for her adventurous life but slipped into obscurity in recent ...

The most famous depiction of Churchill, known as “The Roaring Lion,” appears on the U.K.’s five-pound banknote and shows a ...

The Musée D'Orsay has been criticised for "suggestive" interpretations insinuating that the Impressionist painter was gay.

As visitors ascend the stairs of Vienna’s Upper Belvedere Palace, a collection of Gustav Klimt’s most famous paintings awaits ... him a “painter of women.” It is there that visitors ...