Famous Paintings
Renaissance Paintings
Renaissance Paintings are the paintings of reality. Painters not just paint the paintings but they make it real. Let’s have a look to Renaissance Paintings.
Leonardo da Vinci - The Last Supper Painting
Read on to find out more about Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting, The Last Supper…
Art History, Styles & Movements of Western Art
Article talks about imperative art styles & movements that made art history. It also highlights how art styles influenced one another.
Richard Wilson - English Landscape Painter
There is a famous story about him telling King George III that it would be quite okay for His Majesty to pay in weekly installments when the King thought that 100 guineas per painting was just too bloody much.
Mona Lisa Smile
Mona Lisa Smile, a painting which has become famous world wide is an art work created by Leonardo da Vinci. People have been gazing at Leonardo da Vinci's Portrait of the Mona Lisa with a sense of bafflement for nearly 500 years....
The Spinone Italiano
The Spinone Italiano has been portrayed in Renaissance Paintings – most famously in Andrea Mantegna's fresco 'The Return of Cardinal Gonzaga'.
The Deconstruction of Pablo Picasso
Why is Pablo Picasso regarded as the greatest painter ever? Or is he merely the most famous of them all? What about the seemingly endless styles that he indulged in?
Investing in Indian art
Learn about the booming Indian art market and how to invest in art.
Picasso Paintings Stolen From Family Home
Several paintings and drawings by Pablo Picasso have been stolen from the home of the artist's granddaughter in Paris, police revealed today.
High-res 3d Scan Helps Scientists Uncover Mona Lisa's Secrets
Scientists have made the most detailed copy yet of the most famous painting in the world, using a new three-dimensional high-resolution scan to look at the Mona Lisa in depth.
Picasso Portrait Sells for $95m
A portrait by Pablo Picasso depicting the woman he called his "private muse" has sold for $95.2m (£52m), the second-highest amount ever paid for a painting at auction.
Auction Frenzy Van Gogh Nets £22m
A feeding frenzy at Christie's New York on Tuesday night led to the most profitable Impressionist and modern art sale for 16 years.
Monet's Water Lilies Bloom Again
They are among the most popular paintings in the world but for decades they were starved of natural light and displayed in a building likened to an oversized garden shed.
Rolf's Secret: the Mona Lisa Effect
Rolf Harris is the perfect choice to paint a portrait of the Queen.
Smiles All Round As the Mona Lisa Settles Into Her New Home
Looking a lot more cheerful than she did before, the world's best-known painting moved yesterday to smart new lodgings that it is hoped will allow more of the 6.6 million people who visit the Louvre each year to see her.
Hidden Picasso Goes on Show
A 'secret' painting by the young Pablo Picasso was unveiled at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao yesterday after experts found it hidden beneath layers of paint on another of his canvasses.
Water Lilies... isn't that by Rolf Harris?
Can you tell what it is yet? In terms of knowing their masterpieces from their modern day art, most of the British public can't, confusing works by Monet and Rolf Harris.
New light on the tragic last days of Van Gogh
Behind a three-storey white house in this village north of Paris, a rickety garden table, its top painted red, is preserved from the elements in a glass cage. Battered and scarred, it is one of the world's best known pieces of furniture, immortalised in Vincent van Gogh's portrait of Dr Paul Gachet, the most expensive painting ever sold.
The more you look away, the more she smiles
To get a real smile from Mona Lisa, give her a sidelong glance. Focus on the background, or her dainty hands, rather than her enigmatic lips. That way, Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University told the AAAS meeting, her mouth is seen by the viewer's low-frequency, peripheral vision and the smile appears much more cheerful.
Unrecognised Van Gogh almost sold for a song
An unsigned oil painting due to be auctioned in Tokyo today, valued at just £50, has belatedly been identified as an obscure work by Vincent van Gogh worth tens of thousands of pounds.
Van Gogh Cat Burglars Beat Hi-tech Alarms - With a Ladder
A pair of thieves equipped with just a ladder, a large piece of cloth and a rope managed to break into Amsterdam's famous Van Gogh museum yesterday and make off with two multi-million-pound canvases by the artist.
Dutch art treasures stolen
The Dutch art world was shocked yesterday by the theft of five 17th century paintings valued at nearly £2m after a raid on one of the country's most famous museums by thieves thought to be acting on behalf of a collector.
Louvre Laziness Enough to Put Scowl on Mona Lisa
Inefficiency, mismanagement and three-hour coffee breaks are ruining the Louvre experience for millions of visitors, according to a damning annual report by France's government auditors. The famed museum, home of the Mona Lisa, does not know how many paintings it has, how many staff it...
Learn about the booming Indian art market and how to invest in art.
Picasso Paintings Stolen From Family Home
Several paintings and drawings by Pablo Picasso have been stolen from the home of the artist's granddaughter in Paris, police revealed today.
High-res 3d Scan Helps Scientists Uncover Mona Lisa's Secrets
Scientists have made the most detailed copy yet of the most famous painting in the world, using a new three-dimensional high-resolution scan to look at the Mona Lisa in depth.
Picasso Portrait Sells for $95m
A portrait by Pablo Picasso depicting the woman he called his "private muse" has sold for $95.2m (£52m), the second-highest amount ever paid for a painting at auction.
Auction Frenzy Van Gogh Nets £22m
A feeding frenzy at Christie's New York on Tuesday night led to the most profitable Impressionist and modern art sale for 16 years.
Monet's Water Lilies Bloom Again
They are among the most popular paintings in the world but for decades they were starved of natural light and displayed in a building likened to an oversized garden shed.
Rolf's Secret: the Mona Lisa Effect
Rolf Harris is the perfect choice to paint a portrait of the Queen.
Smiles All Round As the Mona Lisa Settles Into Her New Home
Looking a lot more cheerful than she did before, the world's best-known painting moved yesterday to smart new lodgings that it is hoped will allow more of the 6.6 million people who visit the Louvre each year to see her.
Hidden Picasso Goes on Show
A 'secret' painting by the young Pablo Picasso was unveiled at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao yesterday after experts found it hidden beneath layers of paint on another of his canvasses.
Water Lilies... isn't that by Rolf Harris?
Can you tell what it is yet? In terms of knowing their masterpieces from their modern day art, most of the British public can't, confusing works by Monet and Rolf Harris.
New light on the tragic last days of Van Gogh
Behind a three-storey white house in this village north of Paris, a rickety garden table, its top painted red, is preserved from the elements in a glass cage. Battered and scarred, it is one of the world's best known pieces of furniture, immortalised in Vincent van Gogh's portrait of Dr Paul Gachet, the most expensive painting ever sold.
The more you look away, the more she smiles
To get a real smile from Mona Lisa, give her a sidelong glance. Focus on the background, or her dainty hands, rather than her enigmatic lips. That way, Margaret Livingstone of Harvard University told the AAAS meeting, her mouth is seen by the viewer's low-frequency, peripheral vision and the smile appears much more cheerful.
Unrecognised Van Gogh almost sold for a song
An unsigned oil painting due to be auctioned in Tokyo today, valued at just £50, has belatedly been identified as an obscure work by Vincent van Gogh worth tens of thousands of pounds.
Van Gogh Cat Burglars Beat Hi-tech Alarms - With a Ladder
A pair of thieves equipped with just a ladder, a large piece of cloth and a rope managed to break into Amsterdam's famous Van Gogh museum yesterday and make off with two multi-million-pound canvases by the artist.
Dutch art treasures stolen
The Dutch art world was shocked yesterday by the theft of five 17th century paintings valued at nearly £2m after a raid on one of the country's most famous museums by thieves thought to be acting on behalf of a collector.
Louvre Laziness Enough to Put Scowl on Mona Lisa
Inefficiency, mismanagement and three-hour coffee breaks are ruining the Louvre experience for millions of visitors, according to a damning annual report by France's government auditors. The famed museum, home of the Mona Lisa, does not know how many paintings it has, how many staff it...