Painter Thomas Ganter has won the £30,000 BP Portrait Prize with the painting of a homeless man he encountered outside Frankfurt’s Städel museum, the Guardian reports. The artist was struck by the ...

Scholars agree that one of the finest Italian Renaissance portraits in the United States is Giorgione’s “Portrait of a Man.” It hangs prominently in the San Diego Museum of Art because the museum’s ...

Jacopo Pontormo’s Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap could soon belong to the National Gallery after a £19m government grant – but only if another £11m can be found. It’s a painting full of romance and ...

Artist: Antonello da Messina (active 1456, died 1479), a Sicilian painter who, during a short stay in Venice in 1475-6, had an enormous impact on Venetian art as it has come to be celebrated: its ...

Christie's is proud to present Francis Bacon's Portrait of Man with Glasses III (1963; estimate: £6,000,000-9,000,000) as a major highlight of its 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale on 5 March ...

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