The Louvre has a long history of thefts and attempted robberies. The most famous came in 1911, when the Mona Lisa vanished from its frame, stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a former worker who hid inside ...
As states across the country are under stay-at-home orders to help prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, our options for entertainment and cultural enrichment have dwindled. Although public ...
Whether you admire the emotional canvases of the Italian Renaissance or get curious about contemporary art installations, art has the power to breach boundaries, evoke certain emotions, and inspire ...
Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is known to have created 36 pieces of artwork during his life, including his most famous painting, "Girl with a Pearl Earring." The painting depicts a woman, but it's not ...
Art possesses the special ability to captivate human emotion, imagination, and cultural history in a manner that is impossible to convey through words. Throughout the centuries, some art pieces have ...
The theft that occurred at the Louvre Museum in Paris over the weekend is "damn close" to the most expensive museum theft in history, according to one of the most famous art thieves in the world.
A Kentucky fine arts teacher has achieved a remarkable milestone by becoming the first educator from Western Hills High School to have her artwork displayed in the world-famous Louvre museum.
The overnight theft of five major paintings from the Paris Museum of Modern Art is proving irresistible conversational fodder in the world of online media. Already, it's produced one of the more ...
Parisians can win burial spots in the world-famous cemeteries of Père-Lachaise, Montparnasse and Montmartre as part of a ...