Like many women artists of earlier centuries whose work has survived, Artemisia came from a family of artists. Born in Rome in 1593, she was the oldest and most artistically inclined child of the ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors, and now a Danish ...

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules also found in branching patterns in nature.

With a passion for arguing and a sharp tongue to match his extraordinary genius, Michelangelo was both the enfant prodige and ...

The once-lost 16th-century painting now at the center of a custody battle between a widow in England and a small Italian museum.

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Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...

Live jazz echoed through every room, immersing the visitors of the museum into the art. Getting even more involved in the art ...

Christian nationalism was a flop when the Puritans tried it. See this famous Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpture for information ...

The Oscar statuettes you saw on the Academy Awards were made thousands of miles from Hollywood, in New York's Hudson valley.

Curators at the prestigious Museum of Modern Art, or MoMA, in New York have acquired three vintage photographic collages by ...

Jane Horrocks lends her instantly recognisable voice to Blackburn artist Jamie Holman’s latest exhibition, Contagious Acts.