The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Van Gogh Museum have staged the first show dedicated to Vincent van Gogh's Roulin ...

Greek painter El Greco is one of the best known artists in the history of Western art, as his works have influenced countless painters.

Recently discovered paintings, illustrations, and prints by Flannery O’Connor, hidden away for decades, are now on display at the author’s alma mater.

How does one appraise the paintings of one of the 20th century’s most confounding and lasting literary talents?

A portrait by Marie-Guillemine Benoist, rediscovered with the help of the art agents Turquin, is coming up for sale at Thierry-Lannon in France next week. Signed and dated 1806, the portrait depicts ...

Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma paints a gorgeous love story with an ending that lives long in the memory.

In the suburbs of Paris, magic is made in the Louvre’s little-known ateliers, writes Elaine Sciolino in this excerpt from her ...

In a new book, Elaine Sciolino shares her guide to falling in love with—and maybe falling in love in—the world’s most visited ...

Despite being born in Buenos Aires, Fini was profoundly Italian in her sense of drama, her disarming persona and the ...

Merton was a major Augustinian house from 1117 - 1538 AD. The setting of two royal coronations - those of Eleanor of Provence in 1236, and Henry VI in 1437 - the nave of the church was longer than ...

My brief tonight is to look at how political portraits capture defining political moments and reframe national conversations. And to talk about what, if anything, they reveal about these men and ...

Provence is a region in southeastern France, bordered by the French Riviera and the Alps. It has a rich historical and cultural heritage dating from the ancient Roman Empire, through the Middle Ages ...