He may be one of the most sought-after painters you have never heard of, but Emil Filla's name is doing the rounds of newsrooms and international art-loss registers following an audacious theft of his works from a collection in the Czech Republic.
There are few historical figures that can compete with Leonardo da Vinci's celebrity. This, despite what little we actually know about him.
CNN's Nick Glass travels to the Uffizi Gallery to get a better insight into the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci.
A newly discovered painting by Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci has sent shock waves through the art world, prompting speculation that more of his paintings could be as yet undiscovered.
A previously unknown portrait by famed Spanish artist Diego Velázquez has been unveiled in London after it was spotted in a consignment of works by a largely forgotten British painter.
Prehistoric children as young as three were encouraged by adults to make cave art 13,000 years ago, new research shows.
Iconic pop artist Peter Max painted four portraits of Swift's Speak Now album cover
Hundreds of previously unknown works by Pablo Picasso have been found in France. CNN's Zain Verjee reports.
When people think of Venice, three things come to mind: gondolas, art and sinking buildings. The watery city, a treasure trove of Renaissance art and architecture, is not normally associated with cutting-edge cool.
Its flemish sisters Antwerp and Bruges may be better known, but the town of Ghent, a 30-mile drive northwest of Brussels, has the best of both worlds: stylish new restaurants, bars and boutiques that compete with Antwerp's line centuries-old cobblestoned streets similar to those in Bruges. Together, they bring a palpable energy to this city of roughly 240,000.
Scientists have unlocked another Mona Lisa mystery by determining how Leonardo Da Vinci painted her near faultless skin tones.
His work may be bright and bold, but Anish Kapoor tells CNN why he prefers to stay in the background at public events.
Few artists have engaged with the public realm in recent years as convincingly as Turner Prize-winner Anish Kapoor.
This month on Inside the Middle East -- Zain Verjee hosts from Doha, Qatar.
A former New York City art gallery owner already facing a 100-count indictment was indicted again Tuesday for allegedly defrauding his clients for $5 million, the Manhattan District Attorney's office said in a statement.
Here's a snapshot of Portugal's defining experiences: beaches, cities, and food and wine. Get a sense of which ones fit your travel style and your budget.
The streets are dark and the town is deserted, but Pam and Warren Adams still put up Christmas lights outside their Gilchrist, Texas, home. It is one of the few remaining after Hurricane Ike devastated the area in September.
A team of European scientists unveiled on Wednesday a new method for extracting images hidden under old masters' paintings, recreating a color portrait of a woman's face unseen since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887.
A team of European scientists unveiled on Wednesday a new method for extracting images hidden under old masters' paintings, recreating a color portrait of a woman's face unseen since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887
Luxury these days is a tale of two markets: consumers continue to snap up high-priced Louis Vuitton bags even as they balk at paying full price for Coach handbags. The same can be said of demand for works of art.
The largest international contemporary art fair opened Wednesday, closely watched for trends in the world market at a time of financial turbulence
A country mourns
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China begins three days of national mourning for victims of the earthquake.
The gallery representative for Robert Rauschenberg says the pop
artist has died in Florida at 82
Police have recovered two of the four Impressionist paintings stolen earlier this month in a daring museum heist, police in Zurich, Switzerland said Tuesday.
Police in Switzerland recovered two Impressionist masterpieces stolen earlier this month. CNN's Mallika Kapur reports.
Swiss police were scrambling Monday in search of three masked men who stole four Impressionist paintings worth about $163 million (180 million Swiss francs) Sunday in a heist police characterized as "spectacular."
When Anna Elisa Fattori arrives at work the first thing she does is to take off her clothes. All of them. For Fattori is a professional nude model working at Rome's art academy.
Italy's art models are asking for better pay and better working conditions. CNN's Alessio Vinci reports.
It is an irony of contemporary art-museum management: Sometimes the museum that creates an exhibition doesn't get to premiere it.
The latest and eighth art biennial to be held in the Gulf state of Sharjah takes the environment as its theme.
This month, Richard is on a quest to discover what it takes to create a modern masterpiece, and he gets a few tips about art appreciation from some experts in the business.
Dennis Hwang may be the most famous unknown artist in the world -- his work doesn't hang in galleries or museums, but it's been viewed hundreds of millions of times.
Cubist, a Massachusetts biotech, could more than triple the sales of its skin-infection drug if the FDA approves its use for another infection, and its stock surged 7 percent Wednesday ahead of the ruling.
Luc Tuymansupdated: Thu Feb 16 2006 12:04:00
Described by art critic Adrian Searle as "a Belgian with attitude, probably the most influential figurative painter working now," Luc Tuymans is also the most significant Belgian artist since Magritte.
Take heart: 2006 can be different.
There's contemplative comfort waiting for you in the Museum of Modern Art's new exhibition, "Pioneering Modern Painting: Paul Cezanne and Camille Pissarro 1865-1885."
Computer scientists at the University of Bath in England have come up with a way to make even the dullest of holiday snaps, quite literally, animated.
A painting by Pablo Picasso of an adolescent boy holding a pipe has fetched all-time record price at auction in New York.
A painting by Pablo Picasso of an adolescent boy holding a pipe could bring a record price for the artist's work at auction Wednesday evening in New York.
Last year the second most popular museum exhibit in the world wasn't an Old Master but a young subject: "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years," featuring dresses from the former First Lady's w...
When Sally Ganz and her husband, Victor, plunked down $7,000 for a canvas called Dream back in 1941, they knew it was a good buy. The artist was an acknowledged master, and the painting, a portrait...
LEERY of collectibles? Caution makes sense when considering them, but a couple of factors have lately made them more alluring. When the bottom dropped out of the bull market last year, shell-shocke...
Bill Norris, 59, loves to stand behind the life-size, cast-iron belly suspended at torso height in his dining room and put his head and arms in the appropriate niches. Belly, the 200-pound piece by...
Art fraud is probably as old as art itself. In the 14th century, Italian stonecarvers copied Greek and Roman busts and other statuary, then purposely chipped their works so they could peddle them a...
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