Who can pick the “ten best” paintings of any era? Probably nobody, but people have been known to try. For an exhibition which opened this week, Manhattan’s Wildenstein Gallery asked the art ...

Today, nearly 1,000 Fayum paintings exist in collections in Egypt and at the Louvre, the British and Petrie museums in London, the Metropolitan and Brooklyn museums, the Getty in California and ...

Our list of the best artworks of the 21st century features 100 pieces and 15,000 words of copy, but for the editors of ARTnews and Art in America, it was still not enough. Left on the cutting room ...

Humans were more or less comparable to you and me.” Yet the lack of older paintings may not reflect the true history of rock art so much as the fact that they can be very difficult to date.

The most important wall paintings in the Abbey are from the late 13th century i.e. the figure of St Faith in her chapel and the figures of Christ with St Thomas and St Christopher in the south ...