Tag: painting

An abstract artwork by Denmark's Queen Margrethe, who shocked her nation by abdicating earlier this year, brought 160,000 kroner ($23,300) ...

An oil painting created in 1839 by the English artist  Joseph Mallord William Turner depicts the Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last ...

Maerten van Heemskerck was a Dutch painter who lived in the 16th century. He was known for his intricate and ...

A priceless portrait by Joshua Reynolds, one of England's most well-known painters, is set to remain in the city for ...

Eileen Agar frequently created collages, and in this image she embellished a gouache with a leaf. Agar was investigating the ...

Around the fourth century BC, Praxiteles of Athens sculpted the goddess Aphrodite as the Aphrodite of Knidos (or Cnidus). One ...

The 1886 artwork Bonaparte Before the Sphinx by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme depicts Napoleon in front of the Sphinx. It ...

Edgar Degas, a French Impressionist, painted Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando in oil on canvas. It was painted ...

John William Waterhouse produced The Magic Circle, an oil painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style, in 1886. In order to establish ...

Bunnies, an early Polke painting, is a prime illustration of the artist's skill at distancing spectators while simultaneously submerging them ...