Edward Boccia was an influential American Expressionist in his lifetime. Now, a New York exhibition sheds light on his ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art devotes an enthralling exhibition to the German Romantic painter, who rendered the natural ...

The sombre yet impressively outfitted Portrait of George the Bearded ... The work was based on Albrecht Dürer’s iconic engraving from 1504. Switching to still life, Pieter Claesz’s A peeled ...

A self-portrait of Raphael at age 23 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Raphael’s Mary Magdalene is a willowy figure standing in front of a black geometric background. She’s without her ...

so it is unsurprising that this little head carved from mammoth ivory is likely the earliest personal portrait in the world. Many artifacts from Dolní Věstonice, including this sculpted head ...

Researchers in Cyprus have discovered a hidden portrait that lay undetected for centuries beneath a 1570 oil painting by Renaissance master Titian, a rendering of which is now on display in the ...

The Princess of Wales has joined a group of primary school children on a trip to the National Portrait Gallery. Kate took a minibus with the reception class students and held hands with some of ...

This selection of paintings visualises the breadth of Beale’s output: studies for experimentation and learning, commanding self-portraits, intimate likenesses of family, and commissioned ...

The Princess of Wales has shared a new portrait - taken by her six-year-old son, Prince Louis - ahead of World Cancer Day. In the photo, Kate is seen standing on a fallen tree trunk in the woods ...

Many very strange symbols appear in Albrecht Dürer’s famous engraving Melencolia I. Among them is a magic constant 34, a well-known and enigmatic example.

The school children journeyed through the Gallery, using portraits as the basis for a range of activities based around a magic tree with colourful leaves. open image in gallery Kate Middleton ...