A new analysis by researchers from Dartmouth University and the University of Cambridge has concluded that the stone depicted in the so-called Melun Diptych is most likely a prehistoric stone hand ...

The National Gallery is celebrating its bicentenary with the acquisition of a most mysterious painting, an altarpiece with the Virgin and Child and two saints, dating from 1500-10. Although the ...

Stories of haunted paintings have circulated ... galleries catching fire and the appearance of a mysterious black-haired ghost in a blue overcoat. The most chilling event tied to Gorky’s work ...

A painting with mysterious origins is likely a Raphael masterpiece ... Several architects took over the project, with the most notable being Michelangelo. One of Raphael's most famous paintings ...

The newfound painting was likely created a few months before Picasso started his official portrait. "Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money. However ...

Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi's paintings had a recurring figure: a mysterious woman with her ... seem surprising given Hammershøi is now the most sought-after Danish artist of all time ...

an academic believes she has unravelled the mystery about the backdrop to one of the world's most famous works of art. Art historians have long debated its landscape, speculating on the locations ...

archaeologists say that one of the cave’s most mysterious motifs, a comblike pattern, first appeared some 8,200 years ago, making it by far the earliest known example of rock art in one of the ...