In 1848 or thereabouts, a talented artist painted an almost life-size group portrait of the three children of one of the ...

For centuries,the Girl with a Pearl Earring, has captured the fascination of audiences worldwide. The painting, created by ...

When we admire great works of art, we rarely think about who the people depicted on the paintings are. Behind some famous paintings are real lives — romantic, dramatic or even exciting. We decided ...

[Full entry reads: "A Flemish market, with an old woman in a straw hat, warming her hands over a pan of coals, &c., the woman painted by Lang Jan or Rubens, the rest by Snyders."] Catalogue of ...

The body of the woman, 1.5 m tall and estimated to be between the ages of 25 and 30 at the time of her death, was found in a carefully prepared grave covered with a piece of elaborate embroidery ...