It turns out that even history’s most successful artists occasionally recycled their own canvases. A revered religious ...

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

"Microscopic observations of the craqueleure of the painting allowed us to document the stratigraphy of the canvas and to ...

One of the most written-about Renaissance artists, da Vinci may also be among the most poorly understood.

The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. Much of Friedrich’s ...

A polymathic writer and visual artist, Fuseli made his mark with paintings that translated his feverish obsessions into ...