"Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money," the institute explained The Courtauld/Facebook Historians recently made an unexpected discovery while examining one ...

Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted a portrait of a sculptor friend, high-tech imaging tools have revealed another portrait hidden beneath it. The concealed image reveals a woman, the ...

A previously unknown work has been analyzed and revealed using scientific research underneath an oil painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Tiziano Vecellio, better known as Titian. The painting ...

Bardot's portrait is a clear example of Warhol's poetics: it is not about portraying the actress's inner personality, but ...

Introduction. Part I. Assimilation and deification in the classical portrait historié. From Phidias to Constantine: The Portrait Historié in Classical Antiquity (Stephan T.A.M. Mols, Eric M. Moormann, ...

Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great ...

A good portrait not only captures a likeness, but the person’s spirit, says Susan Durkee of Redding, adding, “It is that sense of spirit that viewers respond to, that gives them pleasure when they ...

An Argentine federal court announced Wednesday that authorities had recovered the long-lost "Portrait of a Lady," an 18th-century work by the Italian painter Giuseppe Ghislandi that was looted by the ...

A familiar image of George Washington seen by millions on the $1 bill will soon take center stage at auction, as a portrait ...

It was, concedes Claudia Fisher, a lot of money to spend. “I’d never spent that kind of money on something before,” says the American creative director of women’s tailoring brand Belle Brummell. “But ...

The Black subject of a rare 19th-century portrait has finally been revealed as Thomas James, a military musician. As well as providing entertainment to boost morale, these bandsmen were crucial in ...

EACH generation has to cultivate anew an appreciation of the great works of the past. It is not enough that the masters of art and of life were crowned in their time ; it is not enough that they won ...