Standing before a masterpiece in a hushed museum gallery, most visitors admire the brushwork, the colors, the composition.

A gift from former Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner and his wife, the famous Saturday Evening Post cover is the museum’s first ...

It caused a scandal in imperial Russia, then became a staple of popular art in the USSR. But when I spied a copy of Ivan Kramsky’s portrait in the film Sentimental Value, it opened a door to an untold ...

Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is known to have created 36 pieces of artwork during his life, including his most famous painting, "Girl with a Pearl Earring." The painting depicts a woman, but it's not ...

Anna Medyanik's drawings take well-known artworks and famous characters, but with a fun twist: instead of their faces, there's a hole where her cat, Sima, peeks through.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Birth months are listed. Disregard your birth date. "The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dalí illustrates the imaginative ...

More than 8 million people have stepped inside the famous paintings of Van Gogh and Monet in the touring show “Beyond Van ...

Have you ever seen such a beautiful painting that you wished you could crawl inside of it? To be inside the world that Van Gogh, Cézanne, or Monet created? If it's a real-life place in the painting, ...

For the first time in 16 years, the so-called “Umbrella Girl,” a graffiti painting by international art star Banksy, will disappear from public view for an extended period of time. It’s not yet known ...

After 28 months, Vincenzo Perugia was arrested for the theft of the Mona Lisa. Shown here is the transfer of the painting from the Italian Ministry of Public Instruction to France. Bettmann / Corbis ...