As Museum of Fine Arts, Houston celebrated the 100th anniversary of its inaugural building last fall, MFAH director and ...

The rule of the last Bourbon kings coincided with "the elevation and systematisation" of science as a discipline, said ...

The Butterworth Center houses one of six known Venetian ceiling paintings in the United States. Cleaning the painting alone could cost over $1 million.

The hotel dated to the 14th century, when it was the Palazzo Dandolo, a palace serving the Venetian House of Dandolo. On the ballroom ceiling was an 800 square foot painting from the early 18th ...

A painting found in an abandoned California storage locker is a rare double-sided portrait by revered American painter Ammi ...

A cold painted bronze of a Gyrfalcon and a near pair of George IV reclining armchairs are among a treasure trove of unusual ...

The origin and popularity of Chinoiserie can be seen as a broad and deep engagement with and imitation of Chinese culture and ...

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

Always a treasure trove of beautiful and unusual antiques, Tennants’ Country House Sale on 10th and 11th January will combine over 700 lots of paintings, ceramics, glass, works of art, furniture, rugs ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan., Dec. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The painting was part of the collection the 11 Caesars of titian and was painted between 1536 and 1540. in 1734 This portrait, lost in a fire at the ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan., Dec. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The painting was part of the collection the 11 Caesars of titian and was painted between 1536 and 1540. in 1734 This portrait, lost in a fire ...