During a routine house call to a private estate in Camden, Maine, auctioneer Kaja Veilleux made an unexpected discovery in the property’s attic: A 17th-century painting of a young woman wearing a cap ...

The 19th century was an era of both romanticism and rapid change. It was a time when the public's perception of power and beauty was shaped by the masterful brushstrokes of a portrait artist. Yet, as ...

The court of Henry VIII, home to ruthless plots, intrigue, and power plays, was not for the faint-hearted. Participate at your peril, those who were beheaded would surely warn from beyond the grave.

The most striking moments in Kameron Neal’s 2023 video installation “Down the Barrel (of a Lens)” are freeze-frame shots of people on the street, protesting war, racial inequality and abuses of state ...

“Why does he look so angry?” one visitor to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., asked our guide, as if that were a question with an answer. The docent had finally stopped before the ...

Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted a portrait of a sculptor friend, high-tech imaging tools have revealed another portrait hidden beneath it. The concealed image reveals a woman, the ...

A new analysis of the Hever Rose portrait suggests that the painter deliberately modified an existing template to showcase Anne’s hands—with no extra digits—holding a delicate rose Meilan Solly - ...

A portrait hangs in the nave of Westminster Abbey, and if a picture is indeed worth a thousand words, this one preaches a veritable sermon on the absence of humility! A painting of King Richard II, it ...

Kameron Neal Receives $25,000 and New Commission as First-Prize Winner of the National Triennial Gabrielle Obusek The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced Brooklyn-based artist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York state has taken an important and commendable step forward. With the Board of Regents’ adoption of a statewide Portrait of ...