Caravaggio is one of the most famous painters of the Baroque era of Arts. His paintings are lively, dramatic, usually tell an underlying story, and best of all, extremely expressive. Be it the ...

Dating back some 40,000 years, cave paintings are among the greatest and most fascinating discoveries of human culture. Found all over the world, including more than 300 in Europe alone, cave ...

4. Self-portrait without a beard. Sold for around $105.1 million (original price at the time $71.5 million) . Painted in 1889 This is one of the last paintings Van Gogh created, only a few months ...

The paintings are part of thousands of intricate images that have been found since in this location and nearby caves. Perhaps the most famous of them is an intricate black bull housed in one of the ...

Russian troops have stolen a gold helmet from the Scythian Empire, 18th and 19th century romantic paintings and even the bones of Catherine the Great’s lover.

Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi's paintings had a recurring figure: a mysterious woman with her back turned. It was his wife Ida – here, her moving, sadness-tinged story is revealed.

Takashi Murakami, one of Japan’s most successful post-war artists, has used AI to recreate Iwasa Matabei’s famous 17th-century epic gold leaf painting ‘Rakuchu Rakugai Zu Byobu’ — with ...

Top 10 most famous Chinese paintings By Xu Lin 0 Comment(s) Print E-mail China.org.cn, November 8, 2011 ... (960-1127), is a landscape painting masterpiece of ancient China.