Billionaire Steve Schwarzman has caused a quite the stir in the London art market. The co-founder of private equity firm Blackstone has been buying up works by 18th-century society portraitists ...

The 18th-century painting by Charles Willson Peale had previously been the subject of mismanaged restoration attempts. Now, experts in Versailles are bringing it back in line with the artist’s ...

Over time, artists began to depict them in paintings, such as The Medical Alchemist (see image), an archetypal 18th-century piece by Austrian artist Franz Christoph Janneck, in which an alchemist ...

Intricate miniature wall paintings of the Chitrashala at the Taragarh Palace here have long drawn tourists in large numbers but decades of neglect is taking a toll on this 18th-century treasure. Some ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan., Dec. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The painting was part of the collection the 11 Caesars of titian and was painted between 1536 and 1540. in 1734 This portrait, lost in a fire ...

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

An 18th-century painting depicting the ritual murder of Christian children by Jews will be uncovered and available for viewing at a Polish cathedral. WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — An 18th-century ...

An extensive exhibition dedicated to the Dutch artist highlights her beautifully detailed still-lifes. But do these paintings ...

Christ with St Thomas and St Christopher These two paintings were in the chapel of St Blaise, a small chapel in the southern section of the south transept which survived until the 18th century. They ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents "Picturing Nature," featuring 70 British landscape watercolors and drawings from the 18th and 19th centuries.