The oil painting depicts Lisa del Giocondo, an Italian noblewoman, and was constructed with the model staring directly forward. The piece has been immortalized across centuries in modern media ...

It still ended up being one of the most famous paintings, and it can be seen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Made by the Dutch author back in 1642, Rembrandt van Rijn named it "The ...

Ancient myths and legends have fascinated artists and writers long after the civilizations that produced them collapsed. For centuries, mythological painting was a traditional subject matter, but in ...

Finally he arrived at the signature style for which he is so famous – comprising a black grid in which ... part of the unfolding story of modern art. Af Klint’s abstracts, on the other hand, were kept ...

Today, nearly 1,000 Fayum paintings exist in collections in Egypt and at the Louvre, the British and Petrie museums in London, the Metropolitan and Brooklyn museums, the Getty in California and ...

Google's Street View feature lets visitors tour the Guggenheim's famous spiral staircase ... incredible works of art from the impressionist, post-impressionist, modern, and contemporary eras.