In the hidden portrait, Titian painted a mustachioed man holding a quill and standing next to a stack of papers. His identity is not known, and so the team has been ascribing to it the placeholder ...

Kehinde Wiley, best known for his portrait of President Barack Obama, has spent years traveling Africa to paint heads of state. With the project, he wants to open a discussion about how we see power.

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery unveiled a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln Friday morning. The 1865 portrait was painted by Dutch artist W.F.K. Travers and is one of ...

A portrait of an anonymous, Indigenous woman with a red-stained handprint. The illustration was created for the movie "Woman of the White Buffalo." Acrylic painting by Nayana LaFond, completed in 2022 ...

The newfound painting was likely created a few months before Picasso started his official portrait. "Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money.

The newfound painting was likely created a few months before Picasso started his official portrait. "Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money.

Henry VIII Cornelis Massys, Portrait of Henry VIII (ca. 1547). Photo courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art. A ruthless approach to marriage and divorce had earned Henry VIII enduring infamy.

As it prepared for an exhibit, the National Galleries of Scotland found a previously unknown self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh, covered by glue and cardboard, on the back of another of his paintings.

But to labor DeVoto’s thesis, Portrait has to omit the best examples of art in advertising: the Container Corp. of America’s series by foreign artists (TIME, Apr. 30).