From Carrington and Renoir to Goldin, Rousseau and Calder — plus the legacy of chiaroscuro and a rare meeting of Michelangelo and Rodin also illuminating the City of Light. For Valentine’s Day, we ...

Maybe it’s Courbet’s notorious good looks or maybe it’s his accessible Realism, but this particular self-portrait has proven one of those rare artworks that has permeated the collective consciousness, ...

The mystery behind one of the most controversial paintings in art history may have just been solved. According to a new book, the model who posed for Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde (The Origin ...

"[They] call me ‘the socialist painter.' I accept that title with pleasure. I am not only a socialist but a democrat and a Republican as well--in a word, a partisan of all the revolution and above all ...

Around 10:30 p.m. on the night of Feb. 13, 1945, air raid sirens began to blare. This was not unusual; the sirens went off most nights. But as a civilian town that had largely managed to escape ...

A landscape painted more than 150 years ago by the radical French realist Gustave Courbet had been slowly moldering in a box in the basement of a building on the University of Pennsylvania campus, ...