This elaborate, UNESCO-listed former hospital was the brainchild of architect Lluis Domènech i Montaner and is a beautiful example of Catalan art nouveau architecture. – Laura French From 1883 ...

Up until the middle of the 12th Century in Medieval Europe ... look at Napoleon's coronation – the records of that and the paintings of that show every surface is covered in fabric.

A medieval looking fortress straddles each bank ... paramilitaries engaged in fighting did not identify as Russian soldiers? This allows Putin plausible deniability - and in those circumstances ...

How did Gothic art influence the modernists? An exhibition in Norway explores how artists like Dürer and Hans Holbein's ...

Venice used new art commissions to help its citizens understand the changing nature of power and quell public anxiety during ...

French visitors are coming to Washington with an old U.S. battle flag and a plan to rekindle memories of the American soldiers who rescued their region during World War I.

Lavinia Fontana, who lived from 1552-1614, is seen as one of the very first women to make a career out of painting in Western art, and an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance ...

NewsOnce a defining feature of shopfronts in the early 20th century, sign painting had gradually disappeared ... that will be published in French in 2026. Victor Bert at work on the Causerie ...

Lee, 47, was one of 10 artists assisting the abstract painter Julie Mehretu on a large-scale commission for the lobby of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that would lead to the creation of ...