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From Claude Monet to Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas, Impressionism has left a legacy of legendary canvases you can see ...
People get upset when it’s not on view,” said Stephanie L. Herdrich, curator of American painting and drawing at the Met.
In 1911, a mysterious thief slipped the Mona Lisa out of the Louvre, shocking the world. The disappearance set off a global ...
The 500-year-old portrait of Christ (the title means “Savior of the World” in Italian ... at $100,000 — is now officially the most expensive painting ever sold. The auction lasted nearly ...
Legendary painter MF Husain's, billed as one of his most important and sizable works from the 1950s, went for USD 13.8 million (over Rs 118 crore) at an auction, setting the new record for the ...
The "Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage 'Round the World'" is considered the longest painting in North America. The painting ...
The Anambra State governor’s wife, Dr Nonye Soludo, has congratulated a 15-year-old painting talent, Kanyeyachukwu Tagbo-Okeke, who just set a Guinness World Record with the painting of the ...
WASHINGTON (AFP): Archaeologists have discovered the world's oldest known cave painting: a life-sized picture of a wild pig that was made at least 45,500 years ago in Indonesia. The finding ...
Early on the morning of August 21, 1911, a brazen thief dressed as a museum employee entered the Louvre in Paris without raising an alarm. The building was only open to staff when the Italian man ...