Launched earlier this year by the BBC in partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation, Your Paintings is an interactive resource and online catalogue that aims to include every oil painting in the ...

A new analysis has precisely dated paintings in France’s Font-de-Gaume cave for the first time. Scientists discovered ...

There’s a reason why masterpiece works of art spark conspiracy theories and captivate us with their mystery. They date so far back there’s no way to ask the creators what they were thinking when they ...

A major new Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam displays the artist's evocative and serene paintings of daily life – but they harbour secret, symbolic messages, writes Matthew Wilson.

A regal, indigo-painted portal cuts between a virtual landscape of green hedges and blue skies with high puffy clouds, while playful flute tunes resound through the exhibition’s entrance. Inside, ...

When you gaze at a painting on the wall of an art museum or gallery, you might think of the artist who made it. But the painting may not have gone straight from the master’s brush to the museum ...

Attributed to an artist from the generation (ca. 1725–ca. 1785) after Manaku and Nainsukh; “Krishna and His Family Admire a Solar Eclipse, canto 10.82,” from a Bhagavata Purana (Ancient Tales of the ...