It caused a scandal in imperial Russia, then became a staple of popular art in the USSR. But when I spied a copy of Ivan Kramsky’s portrait in the film Sentimental Value, it opened a door to an untold ...

Join me today as we continue our study of portraits. Portraits show how people look and often have clues about the sitter's life. Each day we will study a famous portrait and create a portrait with ...

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London showcases drawings and etchings from throughout the British ...

Conservators in London, England used infrared and X-ray imaging to reveal a never-before-seen portrait of a woman beneath a popular painting by renowned artist Pablo Picasso. The Courtauld Institute ...

Art is more than paint on canvas or lines on paper. Behind many masterpieces lie mysteries, hidden meanings, and surprising details waiting to be discovered. In this article, we reveal the fascinating ...

No, reader, this is not a centuries-old painting of a shotgun wedding. Despite appearances, the woman in green is not believed to be pregnant. Art historians, in truth, have not come to many ...

Many historians have come up with answers about whom they believed the Mona Lisa was in real life. The most common answer is that the Mona Lisa is a portrait of the real-life Lisa Gherardini who was ...

A historic painting of President Abraham Lincoln has been installed in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in time for the upcoming Presidents’ Day weekend. The nine-foot-tall ...

Scientific analysis of the famed Anne Boleyn portrait "Hever Rose" reveals the artist may have tried to visually rebut rumors about the queen to protect her legacy.