Italy's Culture Ministry says the government has bought a rare portrait by baroque painter Caravaggio for 30 million euros, one of the largest investments ever for a single artwork.

"Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money," the institute explained The Courtauld/Facebook Historians recently made an unexpected discovery while examining one ...

The famous portrait of President John F Kennedy makes a cameo in the hit television series 'Love Story,' about JFK Jr. and ...

As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves ...

Over the past few years, art historians have identified several previously unknown paintings by Elizabeth I's favorite artist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Detail of a Fayum funerary portrait that will go up for sale at Sotheby's New York as part of its Old Masters sales. - Courtesy ...

Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great ...

When Amy Sherald was selected to paint the official portrait of Michelle Obama eight years ago, many people in the art world didn't know who she was. They do now. At 52, Sherald has become one of ...

Gustav Klimt’s "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" was seized by the Nazis and was almost ruined in a fire during World War II Cover Images via AP Images A painting by a famed Austrian artist became the ...

The flattering portrait of Gina Rinehart has been returned to its donor after a five-year stand-off over display conditions.