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

“The effect of realism is crucial,” says the ... says the Fayum paintings may be equated with those of an old master—only they’re about 1,500 years older. Doxiadis has a similar view ...

That’s true at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has just opened “Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800,” a reinstallation of its core collection. It’s the art event of the year ...

Vox spoke to Matthew Averett, an art history professor at Creighton University, to find out why this trend toward intentionally old-looking ... Therefore, paintings of Jesus showed him with ...

Alexandria, Va., editor and writer Jamie Gold with two of eight old family oil paintings that wound up with her. Her great-grandmother Adelaide is on the left, and her grandmother Madeline is on ...

Now, some years after picking up the brush anew, Bertha Lunzer's paintings will now be presented at a special exhibit in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. "My grandma joined the art classes and realized ...