London’s National Gallery is uniting all of Flemish Old Master Jan van Eyck’s known portraits in one landmark exhibition this ...

Portraits by Velázquez, Ramsay, Hodges, and more provide the starting point for Guild's intimate oil paintings.

Catharina van Hemessen’s self-portrait will be presented at the National Gallery, as interest in early women painters grows ...

A good portrait not only captures a likeness, but the person’s spirit, says Susan Durkee of Redding, adding, “It is that sense of spirit that viewers respond to, that gives them pleasure when they ...

When oil painter Richard Abraham was growing up on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, he’d spend time in his local library’s art section. Books on illustration and painting, he recalled, were right next to ...

In the 1840 oil painting, a man named Frederick wears a scarlet vest under his black coat and a blue bow tie beneath his translucent lace collar. His spine is straight, his shoulders are back. It's a ...

In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...

Fashion isn’t art, or so they say, but plenty of designers flit between the two worlds. Tom Ford is an accomplished filmmaker and Helmut Lang famously destroyed his archive and transformed it into ...

Researchers at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, using infrared reflectography, have discovered an earlier painted portrait of a woman underneath René Magritte’s 1943 painting, La Cinquième ...