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

There’s no feeling quite like exploring a beautiful art museum. Between the lingering smell of dried paint hanging in the air and the subtle hum of people discussing each work, it always leaves me ...

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 ...

Many historians have come up with answers about whom they believed the Mona Lisa was in real life. The most common answer is that the Mona Lisa is a portrait of the real-life Lisa Gherardini who was ...

In 1527, renowned Renaissance artist Hans Holbein the Younger completed his portrait of the martyred chancellor of England, one of the world’s most inspiring and revered paintings — Portrait of Sir ...

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.

Modigliani (left), Picasso, and André Salmon (who renamed “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”) in front the Café de la Rotonde, Paris, 1916 (photo by Jean Cocteau via Wikimedia Commons) Jan van Eyck, “The ...

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