Two dozen Caravaggio paintings from museums and private collectors across the world are on display in Rome's Palazzo Barberini.

MIT graduate student Alex Kachkine once spent nine months meticulously restoring a damaged baroque Italian painting, which ...

For nearly 40 years, the British art gallery has defended the Flemish Baroque master’s authorship of ‘Samson and Delilah’ ...

Rome is full of exciting things to do, and it can be difficult to figure out where to go. Art enthusiasts should be sure to ...

Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church. Baroque art was propaganda — for the state or for the Church. It inspired the masses to believe that the authority of the prince and ...

From John Wilson's depictions of racial prejudice and disenfranchisement to the colorful works of Cicely Carew, this season's art exhibits offer explorations on the intersections of power and whimsy.

Tamara de Lempicka’s art deco paintings — beloved by Madonna, celebrated in a musical and a major show in San Francisco — are immaculate and artificial.

Did you know Adolf Hitler once wanted to be an artist? Yes, before becoming a powerful and dangerous leader, Hitler hoped to make a living through painting and drawing. He spent years trying to build ...

The craftsmen of the baroque preferred a curve to a straight line and a contorted curve to a plain one. When the Spaniards brought baroque to the New World, it blossomed in fresh and wonderful ...

Gallery openings in Manhattan are beginning to rival the opera in silken elegance and the subway for sheer squeeze. Last week's opening of the new Marlborough-Gerson Gallery looked as if it was ...

This city may be known as the birthplace of Diego Velázquez, but its contribution to Spain's art scene stretches beyond the Baroque master.