A museum has raised almost £4.5m to save a rare Italian renaissance painting. The Ashmolean Museum, which is part of the University of Oxford, paid £4.48m for the 1420s crucifixion painting by artist ...

Art and culture being accessible to all is “fundamental”, the Ashmolean Museum director has said, after securing nearly £5 million in funding to save a rare Italian Renaissance painting.A temporary ...

A remarkable early crucifixion scene by one of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance, Fra Angelico, has been saved for the British nation after the Ashmolean museum in Oxford raised £4.48m to ...

It takes its title from the Greek word “Meraki,” which, as the artist explains, lacks a direct English equivalent but translates roughly to “pouring one’s soul into one’s work.” In this series, ...

Riders in red coats are accompanied by hounds for the annual “hunt review” on December 7, and canines get the spotlight at ...

Alexander Anufriev, a nonconformist artist from the Soviet Union who, after surviving a devastating earthquake in his 20s, spent decades making expressive, brightly colored paintings of a single ...

This brief chapter of art history is often overlooked. Now, an exhibition in New York City makes a strong argument for the ...

As Los Angeles Dodgers fans thronged to the World Series victory parade in Los Angeles on Friday, many had their eyes on most valuable player Freddie Freeman. But in the mix was ...

A new exhibition telling the story of Paxton House and its owners is coming to The Granary Gallery in Berwick.

There's something eternally fascinating about the art of sculpture, more so when it depicts the human form. Michelangelo, for ...

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A young lad dressed in a cap and pointed slippers sits hunched over a sheet of paper at work on a drawing. Beside him a dog ...