Dutch painter Han van Meegeren set out to copy paintings of Dutch 'Old Masters', down to their colours and brushes, and he ...

Like so many of Europe's small-town wonders, Bruges is now well-pickled because its economy went sour so quickly. Here's how ...

The primary maxim of ambient music, as outlined in this inaugural proclamation, was that ‘it must be as ignorable as it is ...

The Getty Museum has bolstered its collection of Spanish works with a painting by 16th-century master Luis de Morales.

He and Ramberg both made memorable paintings ... lesser-known Flemish painter Frans Snyders. In the process, she recycles figuration as abstraction, collapsing the timeline of art history into ...

The big names had a very tough 2024 – but the new year looks a lot brighter for those auction houses which specialise in smaller sales. Aso O. Tavitian grew up poor — but at age 64 he began an ...

One painting, St. Ursula With the 11,000 Virgins, created around 1490, was so striking that its unknown painter has been ...

Toledo, which can be enjoyed as a day trip from Madrid, offers most stunning (and Gothic) cathedrals in Spain, plus plenty of ...

Some homes date to the 1600s; others are far more recent. Ancient trees, modern conservation techniques, and acres of flowers ...

The Detroit Institute of Arts is presenting a special exhibition that reunites, for the first time in more than two centuries, a portrait with the elaborate armor depicted within it.

By finding inspiration in both high culture and mass culture, such as Hieronymus Bosch (Flemish, c.1450-1516) and McDonald’s fast food, the Chapmans bring both gravity and comedy to their work. Their ...