Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Click here to read the full article. Photographer Mark Seliger is giving the public access to some of his most well-known ...

In old portraits, each element of the outfit—from incredibly high heels to snake rings and toothpick amulets—represents a secret code for the discerning observer. These seemingly innocent items ...

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 ...

Ninety-six-year-old Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch in English history, and by quite a stretch. She surpassed the previous record, set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Odds are, when you think of Anne Boleyn, the image that pops to mind if the one above: A late 16th century portrait which is ...

It’s hard to imagine a visual record of the 20th century without Pablo Ruiz Picasso. With his bold shapes and characteristic angles, the Spanish artist captured everything from the horrors of war to ...

Goya (1746–1828), the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, is especially renowned for the portraits he painted over the course of his long career. Scholars cite his ...

In 2008, when I first visited Canberra’s newly opened National Portrait Gallery, my first response was an overwhelming sense of déjà vu. I knew many of those paintings. They had once hung on the walls ...

If you close your eyes and try to visualize Marie Laveau, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll summon up frontier artist George Catlin’s 1837 portrait of New Orleans’ legendary voodoo queen. Or a copy ...