Italy's Culture Ministry says the government has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros, one of the largest investments ever for a single artwork.

Before she even appears in the 1944 film noir classic Laura, Laura Hunt is an obsession for the hardboiled police detective, who is mesmerized with the supposedly dead woman through her portrait. The ...

A previously unknown work has been analyzed and revealed using scientific research underneath an oil painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Tiziano Vecellio, better known as Titian. The painting ...

Toronto's AGO relied on historians, botanists, and Dutch genealogy hobbyists to identify painter and sitter in a rare 18th ...

Half a millennium ago, the Protestant rebel priest Martin Luther sent out a number of small paintings as a marital announcement with political implications. He’d commissioned German painter Lucas ...

Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great ...

Ingres’s portrait of the Comtesse d’Haussonville at the Frick Collection is one of the most celebrated paintings in America Louise de Broglie, as she was still then known, was in her 20s when she met ...

Gustav Klimt’s "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" was seized by the Nazis and was almost ruined in a fire during World War II Cover Images via AP Images A painting by a famed Austrian artist became the ...

A White House official said there are more Trump portraits to come amid controversy over the president's decision to move Barack Obama's official portrait to a hidden stairwell Win McNamee/Getty; Chip ...