With its focus on the power of art to bring people together, the project’s inspiration includes mythological paintings in our collection that show classical scenes of joyful procession and acts of ...

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During the 1870s when he was living at Argenteuil, on the outskirts of Paris, Monet made several trips back to Le Havre, where he had grown up. The city was a thriving commercial and industrial centre ...

In 2016, Google created this 360° tour of Rooms 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15 and Central Hall.

The article details experiments on impregnation with wax-resin of canvas, alone or with several types of ground, which show that darkening occurs on unprimed canvas or on poorly coherent grounds.

The sitter in this portrait holds our gaze directly. She appears demure, learned and polite. She was the most powerful courtesan of her day. Who was the real Madame de Pompadour? Madame de Pompadour ...

Titian was the greatest painter of 16th-century Venice, and the first painter to have a mainly international clientele. During his long career, he experimented with many different styles of painting ...