Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules ...

The painting depicts a stork, a symbol of birth and prosperity in the village, as the “hands of faith” hold a nest ...

Painting by 17th-century Dutch painter has been researched and restored as part of the Women of the Rijksmuseum project ...

Like many women artists of earlier centuries whose work has survived, Artemisia came from a family of artists. Born in Rome in 1593, she was the oldest and most artistically inclined child of the ...

Dutch painter Johannes Torrentius was lost to time—until his only extant painting surfaced. Read more in this edition of Art ...

"I do a crouched little shuffle around the table," she said, "making sure the still life looks pleasing from all seated angles." For supplies, Dawe encourages hitting up smaller local art shops ...

Further, the looser, more impressionistic hand Eiten adopts within this genre is due at least partially to a second trip ...

Still-life painting is one of the oldest genres in history, yet it is often dismissed as too simple and not serious enough to ...

Feminist, fashion icon, revolutionary, survivor: the Mexican artist’s greatest creation was her own defiant self.

When a large abstraction with a $60,000 high estimate sold for $1.2 million, the art world woke up and said “Who is Lynn ...