Paintings are far more than dabs of oil on canvas. They are complex works of art composed of multiple layers, from primer and ...

What’s the worst home improvement project? I’ll go first: It’s painting rooms. It takes forever, you need to find a billion tarps to cover up all your stuff, and half the time you don’t even know if ...

A new high-resolution scan of The Night Watch lets you zoom in close enough to see all its small details: brushstrokes, small cracks around the eyes and noses, and even the facial expressions of every ...

A new exhibition at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands, shows how Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece, Girl with a Pearl Earring, has changed over time. Using the latest imaging technology, ...