Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle Museum of Art after a monumental feat in networking and logistics by the ...

From the Mona Lisa to the American Gothic, these famous paintings don’t just grace museum walls; they offer a glimpse into the past and define entire generations. Although most of these masterpieces ...

Join me today as we continue our study of portraits. Portraits show how people look and often have clues about the sitter's life. Each day we will study a famous portrait and create a portrait with ...

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona Lisa, as well as his drawings and unfinished works. In 1517, Leonardo showed a visitor a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a ...

New research suggests that mother and daughter's likenesses were blurred to reinforce Elizabeth I's claim to the throne. A portrait of Anne Boleyn from the late 16th century (c.1500-1536) by an ...

The saint’s visage will harken to that famous depiction, artist Joseph Macklin told the Register. L to R: Sacred artist Joseph Macklin and ‘Portrait of Sir Thomas More’ (detail, 1527), by Hans Holbein ...

This exhibition is entitled Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting, and it focuses for a change on the great man’s art on paper as well as canvas, including his etchings. Not so long ago, there was a ...

A revelatory show in San Marino puts Don Bachardy’s prolific portrait drawings into a welcome new light. The absorbing survey shows how movies were an influence, but the appeal goes beyond celebrity ...