South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.

Portable chemical imaging technology can reveal hidden details in ancient Egyptian paintings, according to new research.

In later life, painting steadily until his death in 1768, Canaletto essayed fanciful variations on his theme with almost surreal capriccios, whose brooding ruins bespoke the ancient grandeur that ...

A portrait of King Henry VIII that was thought to be lost was rediscovered by an art historian while he was scrolling through social media.

LONDON, July 9.-A romantic story of Harold Abbott Titcomb, a wealthy American mining engineer, who fell in love with a picture in the Tate Gallery and married the original of it yesterday is being ...

But even The Simpsons couldn’t have predicted that researchers would stumble upon an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus lid with a painting that looks almost exactly like the Marge Simpson, the ...

An extinct and previously unknown species of goose has been identified from an ancient Egyptian painting that once adorned the walls of a mastaba, or tomb, according to a recently published ...

A rare set of nearly life-sized paintings were dug up in Pompeii over the last few weeks, offering clues about rituals connected to the Greek god of wine in the ancient city that was destroyed ...

The French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir included cats in many of his paintings and a cat on his lap helped keep him warm in old age.

But the recent discovery of 200-year-old rock paintings found in South Africa now has scientists hypothesizing that this ancient creature may have been far more than just a legend.

Five “reimagined” galleries have now opened at the MFA and expand the display of the museum’s impressive collection of art from the ancient world. WBUR arts critic Lloyd Schwartz shares his ...