While we might recognize most of these masterpieces and their artists, we probably don’t know much about the stories behind them. From personal experiences to hidden messages, each painting has an origin story that’s as captivating as the artwork itself.

The greatest paintings usually magnify the beauty and morals of the civilizations that produced them, inspiring countless other artists, writers and satirists for centuries to come. Artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci ...

Life-size reproductions of £65m worth of paintings have been hung in the "most unexpected places" across a Somerset town. Streets and buildings in Bridgwater have been transformed into an art gallery with world-famous artworks by Van Gogh, Turner and Constable appearing at bus stops, in shops and on the outside of buildings.

It didn't exactly take dogged detective work for an art sleuth in Amsterdam to solve a canine conundrum dating back to the Dutch Golden Age. Anne Lenders, a curator at the city's landmark Rijksmuseum, said Tuesday that it was more or less by accident that ...

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