The Corcoran Gallery of Art was adorned with the statues, commissioned in the late 1800s. But since then, they've changed ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

When one thinks of white, marble art and clear, cerulean waters of Tinos island, Greece comes to mind. The two are synonymous ...

To achieve this incredible reconstruction, de Lara used state-of-the-art digital tools to recreate ... This was the effect the architects and Phidias intended to create. It must have been magical!” ...

Despite being perhaps the best-known artist of all time, Leonardo da Vinci was not a prolific painter. He created thousands of drawings in his notebooks in which he wrote obsessively, and while ...

Diego Rivera was one of 20th Century art's towering figures—the Mexican icon who brought mural art onto the world's biggest stages. On the surface, these facts would seem to be unrelated—but ...

A painting once hailed as Paul Gauguin’s final self-portrait is now under renewed scrutiny after an amateur art sleuth raised doubts about its authenticity—sparking a fresh scientific ...

A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for $13.6 million at auction, setting a new record for a living female artist. “Miss January” is Dumas’ “magnum opus” and stands ...

Here's a reminder that it's never too late to pursue your passion. Bertha Lunzer, 93, has rediscovered her love of art after stepping away from it many years ago. Her family says she grew up on a ...