Each summer, on a stage in Laguna Beach, California, performers assemble themselves into “tableaux vivant” – living pictures. They work quickly under the cover of dimmed red or blue lighting, which ...

Many historians have come up with answers about whom they believed the Mona Lisa was in real life. The most common answer is that the Mona Lisa is a portrait of the real-life Lisa Gherardini who was ...

A historic painting of President Abraham Lincoln has been installed in the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in time for the upcoming Presidents’ Day weekend. The nine-foot-tall ...

After 28 months, Vincenzo Perugia was arrested for the theft of the Mona Lisa. Shown here is the transfer of the painting from the Italian Ministry of Public Instruction to France. Bettmann / Corbis ...

No, reader, this is not a centuries-old painting of a shotgun wedding. Despite appearances, the woman in green is not believed to be pregnant. Art historians, in truth, have not come to many ...

Great paintings preserve images of the people of their era. These are the faces that we are used to seeing in museums and art textbooks. But what if we replaced these models with modern Hollywood ...