To Nietzsche, seeking a synonym for music, the answer was “always and only Venice.” But it is a painter’s city. Lodged between water and sky, the seaport that calls itself Serenissima is an unending ...

A painting by Richard Parkes Bonington of the Rialto in Venice, Italy could fetch up to £3.5 million at auction. Created in the spring of 1826, the oil on millboard was sold to its current owner in ...

Banksy has produced an artwork for the Venice Biennale art festival. A video shared by the street artist shows his new work Venice In Oil, which is made from nine individually framed painted sections ...

In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...

Oil painting is probably one of the most complicated, but also admired painting techniques. Oil painting is basically an art in itself as the artist needs to mix pigments with oil to create rich, ...