Researchers with the Australian National Maritime Museum have discovered Captain Cook’s famous lost ship Endeavour, closing the book on a maritime mystery that has endured for 250 years.

When we admire great works of art, we rarely think about who the people depicted on the paintings are. Behind some famous ...

The city has always harboured aspirations to own works by artists that are considered the great masters. The addition of an ...

"It was sitting in a barn for so many years and it was just completely untouched. It was beyond dirty. It was so black that ...

The Endeavour’s historic voyage began in 1768. Under the command of Captain James Cook, the ship circumnavigated the globe ...

Pride & Prejudice' composer Dario Marianelli reflects on his iconic and gorgeous score for the 20th anniversary of the ...

Steep streets, famous artists ... who captured the district’s late-19th-century joie de vivre in some of his best-known paintings. Now, a Parisian property in the heart of Montmartre with ...

With more than 20 works, including other paintings ... the November exhibition "He is Derby's most famous artistic son - he is a major 18th century painter and should be seen as one of the ...

What it was like stepping into a Norman Rockwell painting this holiday season in ... is billed as one of America’s last great 18th century hotels. Travelers relax on period furniture amid ...

Among the items seized was a painting described in media reports as “a work attributed to the world-famous artist Pablo ... “1875” belongs to the 19th century, contradicting reports that labeled the ...

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 ...