Inspiration is a powerful force that ignites creativity. It is essential for artists striving to create masterpieces. Every ...

Despite being a prolific draughtsman, fewer than 20 paintings by Leonardo survive. But which were his greatest hits?

Water from a hailstorm leaked into the Musée du Louvre on Saturday (3 May), almost dripping on Cimabue’s Maestà, arguably the greatest early Western European painting. Dating from 1280-85 ...

Abu Dhabi's Louvre opened in 2017, and has an art collection rumoured to be worth roughly $1 billion. The museum covers nearly 64,000 square metres and contains a universal collection of ancient and ...

The exhibition also includes a recent acquisition — “Portrait of Himself as Ophelia,” a 1911 painting by Paul Swan, a gay icon, known as the "world’s most beautiful man" who grew up on a ...

Evidently the gambit was not successful, and the work is now on show alongside Poussin’s Self-portrait, on loan from the Musée du Louvre in Paris. “It's a stunning painting that sat in ...