But when German artist Volker Hermes infuses these portraits with his own surreal, baroque opulence, they take on a new life entirely. Through his series Hidden Portraits, which he began in 2007 ...

A 17th century painting that was lost, then rediscovered, is on display at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth. Why it ...

Was Caravaggio the World’s First Photographer? That's what an art preservationist is arguing, based on trace materials found in the Baroque master's canvases. It's been argued that Renaissance ...

An art collector in Spain has been left stunned by the botched restoration of a copy of a painting by Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. The Valencia-based private collector paid €1,200 ...

This book explores the intersection between materiality, excess, and violence in seventeenth-century paintings through a close analysis of some of the most iconic works of the period. Baroque ...

the famed Baroque painter Rembrandt, in the Dutch capital Amsterdam. His treatise, Introduction to the High School of the Art of Painting, published after his death, is regarded as a valuable ...

(According to Pliny the Elder, the ancient painter Zeuxis demonstrated his acumen by painting grapes so realistic that birds tried to eat them.) Curtains often appear in Baroque and Cubist ...

The mysterious painting features a shadowy figure that ... Growing up in the shadow of the Italian Renaissance, he was trained in the Baroque tradition, which is characterized by grandeur, drama ...

Guido Reni was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Best known for his commissioned frescos in chapels and for his oil paintings of biblical and mythological scenes, Reni’s work is characterized ...