Across the sandstone cliffs and shelters of the Maloti-Drakensberg and Stormberg mountains, San fine-line paintings have survived for generations. They portray humans and animals, but for University ...

Perhaps the most evocative windows into the minds of our ancient ancestors are the images they painted on the walls of caves ...

Greek mythology has been reflected in paintings and hundreds of vivid works that have come to be considered masterpieces.

The paintings are pictured in a directory of property looted in France between 1939 and 1945. General Secretariat of the Ministry of Culture of France / Monuments Men and Women Foundation The auction ...

A major new Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam displays the artist's evocative and serene paintings of daily life – but they harbour secret, symbolic messages, writes Matthew Wilson.

Art, one of the most creative, beautiful, and unique forms of expression, has been around for centuries. From the early cave paintings of fire and fox, to the newer depictions of modern art on ...