"At a ‍general meeting held today, Louvre Museum staff unanimously decided ⁠to pause their action in order to allow the museum to reopen and welcome visitors," the statement from the CFDT-Culture ...

Engaging them, they easily become mirrors, provocations, and timestamps of human intent. To own or not to own them, is never quite the question because everyone would want them in their private spaces ...

Sandro Botticelli, born Alessandro di Mariano Filipe around the year 1445, spent the majority of his life living and working in Florence. He was very well known and celebrated during his lifetime and ...

Jean-Pierre Isbouts - one of National Geographic’s best-selling authors- has been studying and following Leonardo da Vinci’s paper trail for years. He’s written about the Italian’s career and legacy, ...

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was an American artist from the state of Wisconsin who specialised in depictions of enlarged flowers, skyscrapers and landscapes. She has been recognised at the “Mother of ...

Born in Italy to American parents in 1865, John Singer Sargent trained in Italy, Germany and Paris and then settled in London where he gained a reputation as one of the world’s greatest portrait ...

“I paint myself because I’m so often alone and because I am the subject I know best,” Frida Kahlo. Born and raised in Mexico to a German father and a Pacific Islander mother, Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) ...

The viewer’s emotional response is ten times stronger when they are face to face with the painting in the museum. Researchers used electroencephalograms (EEGs) to reveal that real artworks, including ...

Haring was born in Pensylvania, USA in 1958. From an early age, he loved to draw and create images, copying cartoon images that he saw around him. After leaving school, Haring attended the Ivy School ...

American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein shook up the art world with his comic-strip inspired paintings and his bold reproductions of cartoon characters. He took images from popular culture, and ...

Promoter and founder of the museum Taxto Benet assured the unwanted closure is attributed to the losses caused by the protests of the SUT union in front of the building over the last four months. The ...

Seated with her legs apart in front of three clergymen, the nun points her finger at one of them. The men, standing, hold their robes up to display their state of sexual arousal. The inscription Voilà ...