The Mona Lisa is without doubt the most famous painting in the world, yet perhaps we are over familiar with her. Here...

Guernica is the most famous anti-war painting in history, and Picasso’s best-known work. It has gone from a piece tha...

Michelangelo was the first superstar artist. He was a sculptor, a painter, an architect, a poet and an engineer. An ...

This is the story about the painting of the raft that shook the world and scandalised high society. Not only for its ...

Frida Kahlo is the most famous female artist in history. She deviated from the traditional portrayal of female beauty...

The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck has baffled art historians ever since it was painted in 1434. It has been diss...

Women were excluded from almost all cultural and social resources in the centuries from 1400 to 1900 when so much of ...

Andy Warhol made “Marilyn Diptych” in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroe’s death. By the 1960s Marilyn’s film career as...

Claude Monet is often criticised for being overexposed, too easy, too obvious, or worse, a chocolate box artist. His ...

On the 25th February 1970, the Tate gallery in London received nine Mark Rothko canvasses, a generous donation from t...

The Thinker, captured in a moment of concentrated introspection has come to represent a multitude of ideas about the ...