The mysterious painting features a shadowy figure that looks suspiciously like the artist. Jean-Antoine Watteau, Pierrot (1718), detail. Photo: Collection of the Louvre, Paris. Watteau was born in ...

Here are 6 most famous and beautiful paintings that ... the Church of Saint-Roch in Paris and was completed in the 18th century. The painting shows the Virgin Mary being called into heaven ...

The Musée du Louvre in Paris has raised the final €1.3m needed to acquire a painting of a pile of strawberries by the 18th-century French artist Jean Siméon Chardin. The remaining amount came ...

When Georgia B. Smith recently walked into the Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 24, she felt nervous. The 34-year-old wasn’t there to admire 18th-century paintings alongside New York City’s ...