It was, by all accounts, an unremarkable painting by an unremarkable painter tucked away in the church of an unremarkable Spanish town—Santuario de Misericordia in Borja, Zaragoza, to be precise. The ...

Turns out, the Renaissance was messy, and we have the memes to prove it. Classical art is full of side-eyes, meltdowns, and wildly over-the-top emotions that feel… weirdly relatable. Pages like ...

There’s something weirdly comforting about seeing 17th-century oil paintings capture the same relationship drama we go through now. Like, sure, they were wearing powdered wigs and dying of the plague, ...

Paintings by the old masters are timeless works of art. Some would say they're priceless and should never be touched. Others dare to put a price on them (like the $500 million for da Vinci's "Salvator ...