Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted one portrait, high-tech imaging tools have revealed a secret — another, earlier ...

What Art Can Tell Us About Love, Nick Trend’s entertaining canter through art-historical romances, takes us from Jan Steen to ...

In a small guest-house in the West Cork town of Skibbereen lives a man who could help to solve one of the most enduring ...

When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown ...

Artnet have published a rather interesting news story regarding a piece of scientific research undertaken on an Ecce Homo by ...

It turns out that even history’s most successful artists occasionally recycled their own canvases. A revered religious ...

In this extract from the BBC Select documentary Bin Laden: The Road To 9/11, a mujahideen commander named 'Fearless' recounts Bin Laden's first days of training. How did the quiet son of a ...

Based on the X-ray visuals, experts then created an oil painting of the man. "It is clearly the portrait of a banker, a lawyer, some professional man in his workspace," said Bakirtzis, an art and ...

Notwithstanding the suggestion of the title, Vanessa Severo’s self-penned solo show at Writers Theatre about the iconic 20th century Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is not so much a self-portrait of ...

Alexander the Great is one of the most famous generals of the ancient world. By the age of 32 he had conquered a massive empire that stretched from the Balkans to modern-day Pakistan. We know ...

The US First Lady's portrait in 2017 was in colour and it was a close-up of her face. Before the inauguration, the Trump transition team released official portraits of US President Donald Trump ...