Just like every artistic medium, painting is meant to convey the full range of human emotion. Feelings like anger, sadness, love and adoration show up often, but so do humor and satire—and when artists commit the latter to canvas, you get some of the ...

The legal battle for Lucas Cranach the Elder’s paintings Adam and Eve (both circa 1530), which has raged for over a decade, looks poised to continue in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. A late July ruling found that the Nazi-looted canvases ...

Today the Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) and the BBC completed their hugely ambitious project to put online the United Kingdom’s entire collection of oil paintings in public ownership. This makes the UK the first country in the world to give such ...