Sandro Botticelli, born Alessandro di Mariano Filipe around the year 1445, spent the majority of his life living and working in Florence. He was very well known and celebrated during his lifetime and ...

Jean-Pierre Isbouts - one of National Geographic’s best-selling authors- has been studying and following Leonardo da Vinci’s paper trail for years. He’s written about the Italian’s career and legacy, ...

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was an American artist from the state of Wisconsin who specialised in depictions of enlarged flowers, skyscrapers and landscapes. She has been recognised at the “Mother of ...

Promoter and founder of the museum Taxto Benet assured the unwanted closure is attributed to the losses caused by the protests of the SUT union in front of the building over the last four months. The ...

“I paint myself because I’m so often alone and because I am the subject I know best,” Frida Kahlo. Born and raised in Mexico to a German father and a Pacific Islander mother, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) ...

Following in-depth discussions, the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft and the Bührle Foundation today, 26 May 2025, adopted a set of guidelines outlining the key elements and next steps of their continued ...

The viewer’s emotional response is ten times stronger when they are face to face with the painting in the museum. Researchers used electroencephalograms (EEGs) to reveal that real artworks, including ...

When it comes to the discourse of Indian art, the theme of India’s independence has been a source of profound engagement for artists of different generations, who have consistently employed their art ...

Haring was born in Pensylvania, USA in 1958. From an early age, he loved to draw and create images, copying cartoon images that he saw around him. After leaving school, Haring attended the Ivy School ...

The artefacts — including gilded coffin lids, ancient jewellery, statues, and a rare Fayum mummy portrait — were handed over in Cairo on Monday. A foreign ministry and tourism and antiquities ministry ...

Born in Italy to American parents in 1865, John Singer Sargent trained in Italy, Germany and Paris and then settled in London where he gained a reputation as one of the world’s greatest portrait ...

Created by Artemisia Gentileschi between 1644 and 1648, the newly acquired painting depicts the story of Susanna and the Elders, a central and recurring subject in the artist’s oeuvre. Susanna is the ...