Snowcapped mountains, towering pine trees and a winding dirt road cover the dining room walls. Fluffy white clouds float ...

In 1889, Vincent van Gogh committed himself to a psychiatric asylum in Southern France, where he spent a turbulent year creating roughly 150 paintings, including masterpieces such as “Irises,” ...

In the beginning there was Cimabue, “who was to shed the first light on the art of painting” – until he was “eclipsed” by his pupil Giotto. The story, told by Giorgio Vasari in his ...