The major survey repositions the French artist as more than a Neoclassicist, emphasising instead his realism and idealism ...

And yet, a lifelong interest emerged as a direct result of this version of the painting. “As best as I can reconstruct, my ...

The Louvre celebrates the French master—who painted for Louis XVI before morphing into an ardent revolutionary and then a ...

Jean-Paul Marat met his end in his bathtub. The assailant was sent to the guillotine but the murder would live on in an indelible painting.

David may not have been the first action hero, but after 2,500 years or so he has proved himself among the most enduring, having inspired dozens of written works and a nifty statue or two, by the ...

ST. LOUIS — The Saint Louis Zoo is mourning the loss of an animal that spent his entire life at the zoo. Zin the Sichuan takin was humanely euthanized on Dec. 11 due to declining quality of life ...

Have you ever in your life encountered a character as wretched as Donald Trump? For many people, this was a question asked and definitively answered twenty years ago, when Trump was still a ...

Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner were found dead in their Los Angeles home on Sunday, Dec. 14 Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Scientists have reexamined a mummified fragment of Louis XIV’s heart and now say the Sun King may have died from a chronic fungal infection rather than the gangrene long believed to have killed him ...

Louis XIV, who was the King of France and the longest reigning monarch in European history, died on Sept. 1, 1715 Leemage/Corbis via Getty Scientists believe they have discovered the real cause of ...

The Palace of Versailles has agreed to reexamine the origins of a prized Jacques-Louis David sketchbook after new research revealed evidence that the object was looted by the Nazis during World War II ...

What happens when you get the best art historians, curators, and conservators together in a single museum? Well, you're pretty likely to get the best deals in the art world, as the Metropolitan Museum ...