Oil painting is probably one of the most complicated ... ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ is probably one of the most beautiful and calm paintings ever created. There are no mysteries, no screaming ...

This is as close to perfection as museum exhibitions come: 28 oil paintings by Johannes ... Marcel Proust called the View of Delft the most beautiful painting in the world. At an exhibition ...

“The Toilet of Venus” bears a surprising number of battle scars for a painting. On Nov. 6, the London National Gallery’s famous painting suffered its second attack from social activists.

Of that, there is plenty. The gestation of Monet’s Orangerie paintings covers some of the most tumultuous years in French history, including the repugnant anti-Semitism of the Dreyfus affair ...