The Old Man Mad about Painting.
Hokusai, the master who unleashed a tsunami on the art world.
Meet the artist whose majestic...

Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is something of an American success story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he...

Often imitated but never equaled, Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) left an indelible impression on Renaissance art and paved the way...

From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)...

After flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) found his metier in...

Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable...

Geometrical figures and hieroglyphic elements
The delightfully unclassifiable work of a master painter
Designated as...

Pierre Koenig’s modern materials

There are few images of 20th-century architecture more iconic than the nighttime view of Case...

Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review...

Painter, inventor, architect, scientist, and engineer: Leonardo da Vinci stands to this day as one of the most accomplished human...

Louis Isadore Kahn and a luminous modernist language

Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974) treated each building like a temple....

Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art,...

From impossible staircases to tesselated birds, explore the graphic genius of M.C. Escher, master of quirky vantage points,...

Fiell... , Fiell...

The life and work of Glasgow School pioneer Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Scottish architect, designer, and painter Charles Rennie...

Walther... , Metzger...

For Marc Chagall (1887-1985), painting was an intricate tapestry of dreams, tales, and traditions. His instantly recognizable...

Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing...

In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), busily plied...

One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) remains a towering figure in art...

The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31-1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who...

Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and...

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) never left his homeland of the Netherlands but in his massive body of painting, drawing, and...

From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", Rene Magritte...

A colorful exploration of the life and work of Gerhard Richter
An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened...

Diego Rivera (1886–1957) is a loud presence on the art historical stage. With devout political principles and a turbulent...

When art went Whaam!

American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) pioneered a new epoch in American art, bursting onto a...

Painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and all-round showman Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the 20th century's greatest...

The charge of 20th-century expressionism

Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter...

Immerse yourself in the rich shades and textures of the mighty Titian, the most important member of the Venetian High...

In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) has no small role to play. In his...

Vermeer's women, their duties and unspoken dreams
The 35 paintings that have come down to us from the hand of Jan Vermeer...