The Romanian government has long sought dozens of valuable paintings that it says the country’s last king took into exile in ...

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of Jesus, when she entered a period of repentance ...

For Edoardo Bellotti It was the first June of the new millennium and we were in the northern Italian foothills of the Alps.

A temporary exhibit featuring a little-known 1940s American art movement is nearing the end of its run at the Heard Museum in ...

En Iwamura's playful, wistful sculptures reference the historical nature of masks while reflecting their role in our ...

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

The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. Much of Friedrich’s ...

There is increasing evidence to suggest that symbolic and abstract thought may have deep evolutionary roots and was not exclusive to modern humans.