The complex relationship between mother and child is no easy thing to capture on canvas. For Mother’s Day, we asked five experts to share their favourite painting of a mother or maternal figure. 1.

Italy's Culture Ministry says the government has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros, one of the largest investments ever for a single artwork.

Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy” is the first painting by 17th century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi in the Baltimore/Washington area.

An intimate portrait Dante Gabriel Rossetti made of his sister Christina in 1877 is now on display at Wightwick Manor in the English Midlands.

San Francisco Victorians were once neglected and reviled. Then acid-fueled color schemes arrived and made them famous.

Ever since the digital revolution, the world has been stuck in a race, and everyone is obsessed with quickness and quick results. In all this chaos, it seems like "beauty" has taken a backseat, and ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! On Feb. 26, 1876, what we now know as the Philadelphia Museum of Art was chartered by ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Peter Jopling, AM, KC, doesn’t like the term “art collector”. We’re having lunch at Di Stasio Citta at the top end of the CBD, and ...

Tests on both versions of Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata were unable to detect brushstrokes of 15th-century master An analysis of two paintings in museums in the US and Italy by the ...

The women wear high-collared puffer jackets and billowing sports jerseys, the fabrics richly painted in acid yellow and bubblegum pink. Bathed in cool light against shadowy backdrops, they seem to ...

Noah Davis paintings look into Black life in America, not at it. Regular Black folks. Lots of young people. Like himself. Not rich, not poor, not hustling, not struggling. Just living. ByChadd Scott, ...

Hundreds of teen artists, from 14 Central New York counties, submitted their best work for national and local recognition in the 2026 CNY Scholastic Art Awards. Over 5,000 pieces of art were submitted ...