Art & History

Peter Paul Rubens died on 30 May 1640 in Antwerp, then part of the Spanish Netherlands, at the age of 62. The proximate cause was gout compounded by other age-related illnesses...

The Mona Lisa, a portrait painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the early 1500s, is the world’s most famous artwork and a defining icon of Western culture. This evergreen explainer...

The famous painting known as The Night Café was completed by Dutch Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh in September 1888 in Arles, France. It portrays the interior of a...

The Mona Lisa lives today in a climate-controlled display case at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. This iconic portrait by Leonardo da Vinci resides in the Denon wing, Salle...

Fra Lippo Lippi (c. 1406–1469) was a Florentine painter whose career spanned the early Italian Renaissance. Raised in the Carmelite monastery of Santa Maria del Carmine in Flo...

Jasper painting refers to the use of jasper as a mineral pigment and as an imaginative subject in visual art, spanning decorative objects, fine paintings, and cultural artifacts...

Picasso’s portraits of women map the evolution of modern art across more than six decades. These works reveal how he reshaped form, color, and space while reflecting changing...

The kneeling terracotta warrior statue is a detailed life-sized figure from the Qin Shi Huang necropolis, part of the famed Terracotta Army. Found in Pit 1 and other burial pits...