Why it mattered: The combination of canvas, oil paint and perspective enabled European artists to “create the most realistic ...

With some key examples, according to four curators and three historians.

Paintings can be far more complicated than they appear at first glance. The stories told by works of art are the stuff of ...

In the 1780s, French painter Pierre Henri de Valenciennes produced a landscape of the Channel coast. To do so, he painted not from memory or from a sketch, but directly from the source—by stepping ...

For years, art historians believed The Baptism of Christ was likely painted by El Greco with assistance from other artists.

Celebrated every year on April 15, World Art Day celebrates the power of creativity and its role in shaping cultures, ideas, ...