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

Raids, arrests, and a dispute between the art collector and the ... The officer maintains that Greek authorities did not determine whether the painting was genuine or a forgery, as the official ...

I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

Such was the case in November 2024, when a leading AI firm, Art Recognition, published its analysis of Rembrandt’s The Polish Rider—a painting that famously confounded scholars and led to many ...

Her paintings often echo the palette of the Australian outback — the deep reds of the earth, the turquoise seas, the brilliant colours of native flowers and sunsets. But more than colour ...

April 9, 2025 • Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Archaeologists saw the traces of paint and described them ... Color in ancient Greek art was also often likely used to show gender: Men were depicted as having darker skin tones, as they ...

Nikos Papadopoulos, a member of parliament for the Greek far-right party Niki (Victory ... they encounter is the faces of the saints on the paintings and icons. I feel that these are figures ...

In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...

Several years ago, the owners of an old, dusty painting walked into an art gallery in Vienna. They presented experts with a photograph of the work, claiming that it had been painted by Gustav ...