A new book highlights the beautiful work of Jay Matternes, an accomplished artist who drew everything from mammoths to early humans ...

His early paintings were imitations of the work of other artists, particularly the Impressionists; his first was a copy of Claude Monet’s Poppy Fields. He left his wife and quit his job in ...

A round painting by the Flemish-Dutch master Pieter Bruegel the Younger was stolen from a Polish museum in 1974. Dutch police, aided by journalists and art detective Arthur Brand, have now located ...

He took up painting in the 1970s, working in an Impressionist style, but it was only in 1987 at the age of 36, after he left his wife, adopted his mother’s maiden name and began to emulate ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 79 ...