One of the world’s most famous paintings is now on display at the Nelson-Atkins Museum. Called “Under the Wave off Kanagawa,” ...

Dismissed by some as unserious or silly, Surrealist art was in fact largely born out of the brutal trauma of living under fascism, as these five striking works reveal. A new exhibition that ...

It was presented by Lord Lee of Fareham in 1935 for the new altar there. Vivarini died about 1499 and all that is known of the history of the painting is that it was purchased in Bath in 1894 and ...

From sunflowers to starry nights, Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh is one of the most celebrated names in ...

The most important wall paintings in the Abbey are from the late 13th century i.e. the figure of St Faith in her chapel and the figures of Christ with St Thomas and St Christopher in the south ...

Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, according to researchers.