Writing on Renaissance painting in terms of cognitive science, far from reducing images to the application of faculties that were as yet unnamed, consists instead in examining how the intuition of ...

Excavated by Hebrew University researchers at Natufian settlement Nahal Ein Gev II, the 3.7 centimeter clay sculpture retains ochre traces and the fingerprint of its presumed young female maker.

Artificial intelligence has learned to paint, draw, and even mimic great artists like Matt Groening or Hayao Miyazaki. It’s impressive, but there’s something it can’t copy: the pulse behind the brush.

Born in a mountain village in Switzerland northeast of Milan, Italy, and a few miles north of the Italian border, Giacometti was the first son of the important late 19th- and early 20th-century ...

Two trophy skulls, discovered by archaeologists in the jungles of Belize, may help shed light on the little-understood collapse of the once powerful Classic Maya civilization. The defleshed and ...

A 1,000-year-old mask discovered on the head of an ancient skeleton was painted using human blood, according to a new study. Archaeologists with the Sicán Archaeological Project unearthed the gold ...

STOCKBRIDGE — A fist raised high in the air, a foot planted firmly on the step in front of her, the woman at the center of "American Uprising" — wearing a T-shirt with an image of George Floyd and an ...

A quick glance at Emma Hack's artwork and you'd think you were looking at wallpaper. But upon closer inspection, the outline of a painted human body can be seen in the forefront. The Australian artist ...