Painting the town: Meet the women behind Philadelphia's famous street art
Mural Arts Philadelphia has created more than 4,000 works for over 41 years − many pieces produced by women, pioneers in a ...
Painting trauma: Francis Bacon’s suicide paintings
Francis Bacon, a painter known for his obsession with the male figure, painted the last moments of his lover's life as he ...
5 most iconic and expensive paintings that cannot be sold
Art has always been a curator and collector’s first love. Be it the old and ancient paintings created by art masters years ago, or more modern and contemporary art that would look great on a mansion’s ...
Painting Hung in Family Home for 150 Years—Then They Discovered Its Value
The piece, titled Study of Reclining Lions, had been in the same family's possession for 150 years since the posthumous sale of the artist's studio in 1864. The work is set to go to auction where it ...
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Very rare paintings depicting the god of wine unearthed in Pompeii 2,000 years after city was buried by ash and lava
The world-famous site said it had excavated in recent ... Known as a "megalography" from the Greek for "large painting," the frieze depicts a procession, with Dionysus joined by the bacchantes ...
An art critic’s guide to Paris, from the Louvre to Dali
But to art lovers, it’s simply the city of art — and there’s so much to see that it’s hard to know where to start. As the ...
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This Dusty Painting Turned Out to Be Gustav Klimt’s Long-Lost Portrait of an African Prince
Experts think the renowned Austrian Symbolist painted the artwork in 1897. An art gallery in Vienna has priced it at $16 ...