“He lived in a haphazard fashion,” wrote Italian Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari in his biography of 15th-century Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli. “As was his wont.” Whether or not this ...

Art is more than paint on canvas or lines on paper. Behind many masterpieces lie mysteries, hidden meanings, and surprising details waiting to be discovered. In this article, we reveal the fascinating ...

The 17th-century portrait Las Meninas (1656), or “The Maids of Honor,” is universally regarded as Diego Velázquez’s magnum opus, and perhaps the single greatest existing expression of classical ...

Time was when fathers often passed the craft of painting on to their children, and sometimes created artistic dynasties of the first order. Some of the greatest painters of the Renaissance grew great ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kerry James Marshall is contemporary art’s great engine tinkerer. He wants to know how things work. In the 1990s, when his ...