List of All Articles with Tag 'painting'

The Garden of Earthly Delights is a piece so ripe with symbolism that it inspires intense curiosity more than 500 years after it was painted.

Chippenham Museum's art project asks Ukrainians to contribute to a larger piece.

Jewish performer Fritz Grünbaum who owned these Egon Schiele pieces was killed by the Nazis in 1941.

Today, ‘Luncheon on the Grass’ (or ‘Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe’) is regarded as 19th century French painter Édouard Manet's greatest triumph.

A close look at Georges-Pierre Seurat's 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884' reveals much more than a warm portrait of a sunny day in a lovely park.

Arthur Brand met an unnamed man under a tree during a mysterious, years-long quest to find the work.

'The Persistence of Memory' is the most recognizable work by Salvador Dalì, who painted it in the midst of a hallucination.

The famous 1889 painting was the artist's second depiction of a twinkling night sky.

New discoveries in the buried ancient city shed fresh light on Roman life before Vesuvius erupted.

While this deceptively simple portrait has clearly captured the imagination of the nation, the story behind its creation and rise to fame makes it all the more compelling.

Artist Vlada Zabielina, 20, says the unfinished work is "symbolic" and represents how "time stopped".

Her tricky smile and timeless allure have inspired academic study and artistic emulation for more than five centuries. But the story of this perplexing portrait of 'Mona Lisa' is even richer than it looks.