It’s been said that some museums have a blockbuster on view every day: their permanent collections. That’s true at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has just opened “Look Again: European Paintings ...

After a five-year renovation, some of the museum’s grandest galleries have reopened. Our critic frames six artworks you cannot miss. Gallery 625 in the newly reopened European Paintings wing at the ...

Everett Fahy, a prominent historian of Florentine painters from the late 15th and early 16th centuries who joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as a young curator and left to run the ...

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Currently on view in the project room at ART 3 in Bushwick are a half-dozen canvases by Deborah Brown, consisting of figures, some based literally, others emblematically, on the portrait styles of ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — The Wadsworth Atheneum's fixed-up and rehung Morgan Great Hall, a soaring gallery filled with paintings and sculptures spanning 300 BCE to 1891 CE, reopens to the public Saturday ...

LONDON — A late-life masterpiece by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold Tuesday for ($108.4 million, making it the most expensive artwork ever auctioned in Europe. “Dame mit Fächer” — Lady with a Fan — ...

The yearly sale of Master Paintings & 19th Century European Art will feature over 300 works spanning the centuries and the majority of Europe. Old Master Paintings, an important component of Sotheby's ...

Oil paints freed artists like Jan van Eyck, Raphael, and Leonardo to raise the bar. Around 1500, painters in Flanders mastered the use of oil-based paints rather than the standard of the day tempera ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum is home to several astonishing galleries - Alamy The wonderful thing about city breaks is that ...

Artists have painted self-portraits since at least as long ago as 1433, when Jan van Eyck painted a man with a severe gaze in a red headdress, generally agreed to represent the creator himself. That ...