Behind some famous paintings are real lives — romantic, dramatic or even exciting. We decided to look behind the scenes of great works of art to find out the stories and ages of the painting models.

Buried in another of his famous paintings, “Primavera,” you can find as many as 500 different plant species, all painted with enough scientific accuracy to make them recognizable, according to ...

100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC 2, devised by Edwin Mullins. He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of color, the hunt ...

Paintings are usually done on walls, canvases, or paper. And while these too are masterpieces in their own right, it makes one wonder about the artistic ability and the courage required to paint ...