From muscle-bound castles to lavish manor houses, the world is filled with fine stately homes – and many of them happen to be ...

DAVID HENTY’S neat, whitewashed bungalow is easy to find – there’s a blue “English Heritage” plaque on the wall bearing his ...

A decade back, a prominent art gallery in Delhi presented an unusual show. It focussed on one of India’s most famous political artists, Chittaprosad Bhattachary ...

Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted one portrait, high-tech imaging tools have revealed a secret — another, earlier ...

By abandoning this earlier portrait and painting over it, Picasso was probably “not just changing the subject but also changing his style as he developed his famous Blue Period way of painting ...

Bought for $50 this painting's new owner claims 'Elimar' was indeed painted by the famous artist is is worth at least $15 ...

A mystery woman, long concealed beneath a work from Picasso's early Blue Period, has been uncovered by researchers, shedding ...

Queen Elizabeth I was known to be an all-powerful monarch, a warrior who defeated the Spanish Armada, a leader loved by her subjects and a muse for Shakespeare. The late Queen of England and ...

When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown professional man" standing at a desk Sonja Anderson Created around 1503, ...

Torn between his love of the theatre and his love of art, Charles-Antoine Coypel nevertheless became court painter to Louis XV, and deserves to be more famous beyond France than he is.

In Stuart’s most famous portrait, of George Washington, we see the same décor—His Excellency was willing to surrender executive power but not the power of a good, luxuriant crimson.