No, reader, this is not a centuries-old painting of a shotgun wedding. Despite appearances, the woman in green is not believed to be pregnant. Art historians, in truth, have not come to many ...

The portrait has become a subcultural activity, a kind of folk art. Visit the National Portrait Gallery and you will encounter the outsider art of the bourgeoisie. There are contemporary pictures here ...

Modigliani (left), Picasso, and André Salmon (who renamed “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”) in front the Café de la Rotonde, Paris, 1916 (photo by Jean Cocteau via Wikimedia Commons) Jan van Eyck, “The ...

The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck is one of the most extraordinary and enigmatic paintings in the history of Western art. What it shows seems unremarkable enough: a couple, standing in their home ...

Reconstruction of the execution of the Arnolfini portrait. Top: Postures of the painter during the painting process. Bottom: views obtained from the four lenses. Université de Lorraine, Fourni par ...

This exhibition demonstrates Van Eyck’s influence on the Pre-Raphaelite through visual comparisons which satisfyingly reveal a complex relationship between two otherwise disparate art movements. Jan ...

The Arnolfini portrait by Jan van Eyck is one of the most popular masterpieces in London’s National Gallery. Painted in 1434 in Bruges, this small oil masterpiece on an oak panel has influenced ...

Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly looked unrecognisable as they recreated Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait from 1434 on Instagram on Tuesday. The presenters, both 44, declared 'no social distancing ...

Some paintings refuse to stay quietly on the wall. The characters in them slip out of the frame, casting off the picture's still, fixed moment and enticing us to imagine the story of their lives. Iris ...