Queen of Naples, Spain and the West Indies, and sister-in-law to Napoleon Bonaparte, she perished in Florence in 1845.

The 2015 movie Everest had several big-name actors added to its ensemble cast, all of them based on the real-life climbers of ...

There’s your story, there’s my story, there’s the truth,” says a character in “The Great Yes, the Great No.” “And then there’s actually what happened.” The man who poses that teasingly philosophical ...

The unpublished love letters Napoleon wrote to Josephine shed new light on Napoleon ... The celebrated British artist believes that instead of erasing history, art should challenge it to spark ...

Tourists armed with selfie sticks outside glittering mansions. Queues winding outside Instagram-famous restaurants. Impatient waiters shouting orders. Relentless noise. This is the mayhem I expected ...

Even before William Kentridge decided to invite a boatload of rowdy, quarrelsome new guests on board, the SS Capitaine Paul-Lemerle’s passenger manifest brought together one of history’s most ...

The survey by the Archaeological Survey of India also found rock art thought to be from the megalithic period. The survey led to the discovery of three rock shelters. One of these contained ...

His publicist said in a statement: “Jack Vettriano’s passing marks the end of an era for contemporary Scottish art. His evocative and timeless works will continue to captivate and inspire ...

A ubiquitous presence in New York’s art world, he also existed outside it, using 19th-century techniques to create ethereal, haunting images. By Clay Risen Hal Hirshorn, an artist known for his ...

For another, none of the artist’s works had survived; in lieu of images of his paintings, the book offered detailed descriptions of the canvases from historic accounts. But if Bredius’s book ...

Jack Vettriano, the immensely popular self-taught Neo-Realist artist, who by his own account painted to offer his audience escapism with his nostalgia-fuelled, romantic works, has died aged 73.

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 ...