Two "rare" paintings by LS Lowry have sold for a combined sum of more than £1.8m. A painting of Senhouse Street in Maryport, Cumbria, went under the hammer at Christie's auction house and sold ...

Pietro Lorenzetti’s three-level “Tarlati Altarpiece” from about 1320 in the exhibition “Siena: The Rise of Painting: 1300-1350.” Tempera on wood, it traveled from a church in Arezzo to ...

Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative process can conjure something far darker than Vantablack. Do some ...

Now, and only now, you may pick up your brush. The Met’s new show about what happens next, “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” makes clear how astonishing it is that paint, of all ...

So, you want to start painting miniatures? Welcome. This all-encompassing beginner’s guide on how to paint miniatures takes you through everything you need to know. It’s a broad bible of rock-solid ...

The paintings have replaced portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh. The portrait of the late Tudor monarch, painted around 1592 by the Flemish artist Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger ...

26 inches high x 22 inches wide 37.75 inches high 59.50 inches wide 1.50 inches ...

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One such work is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s very own Madonna and Child (ca. 1300), a tempera and gold painting on wood panel that measures no more than 11 inches on its longest side.