"The children new to school enjoy coloring illustrations in textbooks," says Li Hongbo, an art professor at Jilin Normal ...

The Romanian government has long sought dozens of valuable paintings that it says the country’s last king took into exile in ...

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

"Microscopic observations of the craqueleure of the painting allowed us to document the stratigraphy of the canvas and to ...

His years illustrating pulp novels honed his sense of pictorial drama, and his meticulous research ensured historical accuracy, notably in his Civil War paintings.

The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...

One of the most written-about Renaissance artists, da Vinci may also be among the most poorly understood.

Is there any basis for the idea that the Etruscans were descendants of the Trojans. Does the literary evidence really support ...

BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

The small, but vibrant, community of Greeks, with roots deep in history, remains in the Egyptian capital of Cairo to this day.

Known for their equestrian skills and their fierceness in battle, the nomadic Scythians roamed the steppes of eastern Europe ...

Bengali textile workers were not enslaved as ancillary to men or as commodities of pleasure alone. They were enslaved and ...