Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s masterpiece captures the folly of humanity’s desire to reach heaven on its own terms.

We can but try to express our amazement in “peak” moments that surprise us with joy. In doing that, painters, poets, composers, singers, instrumentalists, sculptors, actors, dancers — add your ...

As a lifelong artist, Patricia Mattozzi embraced one of the little-known traditions of iconography: never signing her work.

Two Van Gogh paintings that provide unique insight into his life after he cut off his ear have gone on display in London.

A new study argues that Jackson Pollock embedded secret images in his paintings, which can be decoded to understand his ...