Painting en plain air is intertwined with histories of painting hierarchies and the invention of the paint tube.

A painting by Gustav Klimt just became the most expensive piece of modern art to be sold at auction.

At $236.4 million, a portrait by Gustav Klimt is the second most expensive painting sold at auction, while Maurizio ...

His new body of work, History Painting, takes a similar technical approach, although rather than interpret a specific scene, ...

Gustav Klimt painting fetches $236.4m, becoming second-highest auction sale in history Gustav Klimt’s portrait of Elisabeth ...

An elusive John Singer Sargent portrait of Winnaretta Singer at the Musée d’Orsay, revives the story of the radical ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi was sold for $450 million, etching its name in the history books.

Traditional European history painting showed scenes from scripture or Greco-Roman history. These were the most important paintings because they showed the most important subjects. The ...

Were you Seen at An Artful Evening at the Albany Institute of History and Art on Nov. 14, 2025, at The Albany Institute of ...

A bachelor of arts degree in art history offers students a course of study that will open up a broad and sophisticated window into the history of art. Closely linked to the museum studies minor ...