French mayor’s bid to snatch scene of iconic Van Gogh painting from villagers’ back garden defeated - Vincent Van Gogh ...

When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers.

The Bride of Death was painted for a French princess over 170 years ago by an artist called Thomas Jones Barker. The painting is based on a ballad that tells the tragic story of a bride who died ...

(NEXSTAR) – A painting hanging in a French family’s living room turned out to be far more valuable than just another trinket or heirloom. An auctioneer doing inventory on the family property ...