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 ...

Utagawa Hiroshige’s “100 Famous Views of Edo" at the Brooklyn Museum. Clockwise from top left, “Kiyomizu Hall and Shinobazu Pond at Ueno,” No. 11; “Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi ...

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 ...

Once upon a time, there were seven very large paintings that dominated the wall behind the palette-shaped bar at Riccardo’s Restaurant and Gallery, which was as lively an oasis as this city has ...