In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...

The exhibit is making just one stop in the U.S., at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, where it opened on Oct. 12 and will be up through Jan. 18.

Artists in Afghanistan were painting using oils as far back as the 7th century, research shows, hundreds of years before oil paint was used in Europe. The world's first oil paintings were in caves ...

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