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

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

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 ...

He is one of the most well-known and influential artists and began painting at a very young age. From paintings to drawing and sculptures, Picasso’s creative mind gave birth to creations in all ...

But the artist’s quadros de lã (“wool paintings”) miraculously, almost magically, transcend categories of high and low, craft and painting. Not only is her art powerful and singular ...

Does art belong to all of humanity ... a temple garlanded with masterful carvings—the Parthenon was designed by Phidias to celebrate the glory of Athens. Its friezes depict a procession of ...

An aerial view of the ruins of the Temple of Zeus in the sanctuary of Olympia, with the anastylosis, or reconstruction, of one of its columns Phidias, a well-known artist and architect of the time ...

Andrey Zakirzyanov’s videos that animate famous works of art, such as Vincent van Gogh’s Café Terrace at Night (1888), are one of those rare types of social media posts. “We discovered ...

He emphasizes that the human element of Phidias' sculptural art places man at the center of our understanding, not only of art but also of every attempt to make politics fairer and more humane.

A painting that is said to hide many secrets and deep meanings is the ‘Mona Lisa’. The portrait of a mysterious woman with a sly, beautiful smile has spoken to people in many languages and ...

Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative process can conjure something far darker than Vantablack. Do some ...