The stolen art is valued at some $500 million, with the Vermeer ringing in at the most valuable, around $200 million. Its value is partly due to the artist's uniquely limited body of work ...

One of the most famous paintings of all time, according to art historians, depicts Lisa del Giocondo. Born into a noble Florentine family, she married a wealthy merchant at the age of 15 and had 5 ...

Manhattan DA helps return art stolen by Nazis to original owner's family A museum in Switzerland is set to remove five famous paintings from one of its exhibitions while it investigates whether ...

One of his most well-known paintings is “The Banjo Lesson,” an image of an older Black man teaching a boy to play the banjo and one of Tanner’s most famous paintings. Lorna Simpson ...

Henri Matisse, the French artist known for his use of vibrant colors, painted “Dame à la robe blanche (Woman in White)” in 1946, depicting Matisse’s neighbor, the journalist Elvire Van ...

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona Lisa, Adoration of the Magi, and Last Supper, and see what experts and scholars think of each masterpiece.

When Georgia B. Smith recently walked into the Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 24, she felt nervous. The 34-year-old wasn’t there to admire 18th-century paintings alongside New York City’s ...

The traveling exhibit, which also includes Lego creations of famous paintings, last stopped in Philadelphia in 2015. It opens Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024 and runs for seven months.