The painter Nieves González reworks Baroque-era painting codes with contemporary sitters in puffer coats, pool inflatables, ...

The portrait of the renowned Scottish poet vanished without a trace in 1840. Since then, scholars and sleuths alike have been ...

Step-by-step oil painting tutorial that takes you through everything required to paint a portrait from beginning to end. The ...

A previously unknown work has been analyzed and revealed using scientific research underneath an oil painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Tiziano Vecellio, better known as Titian. The painting ...

Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great ...

Art history is filled with examples of the powerful and the wealthy communicating their status through portraiture. Not just sovereigns, but military leaders, aristocrats, and champions of industry.

"Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money," the institute explained The Courtauld/Facebook Historians recently made an unexpected discovery while examining one ...

A painting with a winding history of theft, confiscation and diplomatic dispute is on public view again after decades. Its owner says Rembrandt made the work himself, but some experts aren’t convinced ...