Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts offers the first major exhibition devoted to these canvases, featuring 14 of the works Van Gogh ...

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

The Dutch "old mistress" was renowned in her own lifetime. But since her death 275 years ago, her legacy has been largely ...

A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, reveal a wildly immediate inner life.

Two new art exhibits Knights in Armor the Pavia Tapestries and Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka now open at Museum of Fine ...

When we think of the Renaissance era in Western Europe our thoughts generally tend towards the opulence and wealth of ruling ...

With a long-lost and recently discovered painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, ‘Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy’, on ...

The Getty Museum has bolstered its collection of Spanish works with a painting by 16th-century master Luis de Morales.

As a restorer who specialized in late medieval and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, he was in intimate touch with the ...

A climate in which science, art, and culture flourished in the Golden Age of Islam and the conditions that foretold the Age’s ...

Many artists, including Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, has explored abstinence in their work Earlier this month ...

It seems like humans always need to know who or what is the best in any category. Renaissance people were no different. A ...