Two "rare" paintings by LS Lowry have sold for a combined sum of more than £1.8m. A painting of Senhouse Street in Maryport, Cumbria, went under the hammer at Christie's auction house and sold ...

In some ways, Pachaikili Muthucharam, her last Tamil film before the self-imposed sabbatical, had somewhat similar beats to Vaali. As in, her Geetha was the figment of a very active imagination too.

Pietro Lorenzetti’s three-level “Tarlati Altarpiece” from about 1320 in the exhibition “Siena: The Rise of Painting: 1300-1350.” Tempera on wood, it traveled from a church in Arezzo to ...

Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative process can conjure something far darker than Vantablack. Do some ...

Now, and only now, you may pick up your brush. The Met’s new show about what happens next, “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” makes clear how astonishing it is that paint, of all ...

The paintings have replaced portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh. The portrait of the late Tudor monarch, painted around 1592 by the Flemish artist Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger ...

One such work is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s very own Madonna and Child (ca. 1300), a tempera and gold painting on wood panel that measures no more than 11 inches on its longest side.

After Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938, Bela and Hilda Parlagi fled for London and placed their possessions, including a considerable art collection, with a Vienna transport company for ...

The Gestapo seized the Impressionist painting from storage after its owners fled from their home in Vienna. Now, the piece has been returned to their granddaughters Julia Binswanger Daily ...

A painting from Claude Monet that was previously stolen by Nazis was returned to a family this week after missing for more ...