The government has this year cut back a funding lifeline for listed churches, putting historic buildings and the art they ...

A Saxon in Hamburg: a leaf from the lost tournament book of Duke John the Steadfast - By Alexandra Burger Sibylla von ...

Huynh calls the 9th Congressional District “the Ellis Island of the Midwest.” He joins a Democratic primary that already ...

Michelangelo, da Vinci, Van Gogh and company were pretty brilliant at hiding secret messages in their paintings Finding secret messages in paintings There’s a reason why masterpiece works of art spark ...

Jan Van Goyen makes a quick reappearance at Turffontein on Sunday in Race 2, a Juvenile Plate over 1160m again, and there will have to be something special in that line-up to lower his colours.

The Arnolfini Portrait is as enigmatic as it is iconic. Painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434, it spawns a lot of speculation – over half a millennium later, we are left with many unanswered questions.

Did Jan van Eyck Really Invent Oil Paint? Is Van Eyck the "Father of oil painting" or do we need a paternity test? Jan Van Eyck, Portrait of a Man (1433). Photo: The Print Collector / Getty Images.

Jan van Eyck, “Portrait of a Man (Self-Portrait?),” 1433 Vcg Wilson/Corbis, via Getty Images ...

Jan van Eyck, one of the most famous artists of the Renaissance period, and often called the pioneer of the Northern Renaissance was an exceptional painter who served under a King and a Duke in ...

The awkward hand-holding gesture from Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait. Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage.Images/Getty Images On the other hand, it could be part of another tradition entirely.