The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery unveiled a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln Friday morning. The 1865 portrait was painted by Dutch artist W.F.K. Travers and is one of three ...
Saint Meinrad Archabbey Library Gallery, St. Meinrad, IN, will host an exhibit of oil paintings and pastels by Iris Gentry ...
In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...
No, reader, this is not a centuries-old painting of a shotgun wedding. Despite appearances, the woman in green is not believed to be pregnant. Art historians, in truth, have not come to many ...
A Paris auction house is next month to sell a previously unlisted work by French impressionist Auguste Renoir of his toddler ...
The truth of Frederick Baker’s life was long obscured by a whitewashed history perpetuated by the Longwood mansion in Mississippi, new research says.
Kahlo painted The Dream (The Bed) during a year of “intense personal trauma and creative renewal,” according to a statement from Sotheby’s. The year 1940 was when revolutionary Leon Trotsky, Kahlo’s ...
PLANO (CBSDFW.COM) - Gene Dillard has mastered the art of painting people. So, when he became the victim of a burglary this weekend, he did what he does best, sketching and painting artwork of the ...