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Frank Frazetta | Godfather of Fantasy Art

Frank Frazetta redefined fantasy in the 20th century, one gloriously violent painting at a time.

Bob Ross - A Walk in the Woods (Season 1 Episode 1)

How much are some happy little trees worth to you? One art dealer believes it's a small fortune.

A detail of Édouard Manet's ‘Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe’

Today, ‘Luncheon on the Grass’ (or ‘Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe’) is regarded as 19th century French painter Édouard Manet's greatest triumph.

Georges Seurat. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, 1884/86. The Art Institute of Chicago. Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection.

A close look at Georges-Pierre Seurat's 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884' reveals much more than a warm portrait of a sunny day in a lovely park.

‘The Persistence of Memory’ at a MoMA exhibit in Berlin.

'The Persistence of Memory' is the most recognizable work by Salvador Dalì, who painted it in the midst of a hallucination.

Christie’s previews Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ prior to auction.

The world’s most valuable paintings cost more than some luxury cars, boats, and houses.

Before the artist created ‘The Starry Night,’ he dedicated himself to the surreal and beautiful wonder of ‘Sunflowers.’

Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent in 'The Duke.'

In 1965, Kempton Bunton pleaded “not guilty” to stealing a Goya from London’s National Gallery. He then told everyone exactly how and why he took it.

Prince Charles adds a flourish to a children's painting in Australia in 2018.

Prince Charles, George Bush, and Britney Spears have at least one thing in common: a passion for watercolor painting.

The Night Watch, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has found a preliminary sketch of 'The Night Watch' the painter drew directly onto the canvas, giving us new insight into his creative process.

There are a lot of things we don't quite get right about the Renaissance, including when it actually took place.

Mary Cassatt, known for her intimate paintings of mothers and children, was the only American artist invited to join the French Impressionists.

David Bowie at his first solo art exhibition in London in the 1990s.

Original David Bowie artworks don’t surface often—but one was recently unearthed in a donation bin in Canada.

N.C. Wyeth's The Duel was recovered from a Beverly Hills, California pawn shop in 2014, thanks to the FBI's National Stolen Art File database.

Works by Monet, Warhol, and Dalí; Super Bowl rings; Stradivarius violins; and 1930s comic books are just some of the items you'll find in the FBI's National Stolen Art File, a public database of more than 5500 missing items of cultural value.

A reconstruction of the skull of Peking man (Homo erectus pekinensis)

From natural wonders like Guairá Falls to literary works from Hemingway and Byron to paintings by Picasso and Renoir, here's a list of just a few priceless things that are gone forever.

The Louvre’s online database includes literally everything, from artworks in storage to those on display at other museums.

To this day, the theft of the 'Weeping Woman' has not been solved. The case remains lodged in popular imagination in Australia.

Vincent van Gogh painted Olive Trees in 1889 perhaps without realizing it contained a dead grasshopper.

The 1889 painting of the olive groves outside an asylum Van Gogh was staying in has been hiding a secret for years—a dead grasshopper stuck in the paint.

Scène de rue à Montmartre, painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1887.

The painting shows Vincent van Gogh’s early experimentation with Impressionism during a two-year stint in Paris.

Fanny Eaton, as painted by Joanna Boyce Wells.

Fanny Eaton, the Jamaican-born British art model, was the exception to the pale rule that dominates pre-Raphaelite art, but her place in its history has been largely forgotten.

Learn about Claude Monet, the Impressionist painter of 'Water Lilies' and 'Impression, Sunrise.'

Johannes Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring, circa 1665.

Some scholars believe Vermeer’s enigmatic subject was abstract, but a new investigation suggests she might’ve been a real model.

From painting 'The Starry Night' to cutting off his ear, van Gogh's life was fascinating and tragic.

Find out about the life and art of Rembrandt van Rijn, the Dutch Golden Age’s most prolific painter.

The Bloody Rockwell: How Frank Frazetta Became a Master of Fantasy Illustration

Bob Ross’s First Made-For-TV Painting Has Surfaced—and It’ll Cost You $10 Million

15 Facts About Édouard Manet’s ‘Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe’ (‘Luncheon on the Grass’)

15 Facts About ‘A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884’

14 Facts About Salvador Dalì’s ‘The Persistence Of Memory’

The 10 Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold

15 Facts About Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’

The Stranger-Than-Fiction Art Heist That Inspired ‘The Duke’

Prince Charles’s Watercolors Are on Display in London

Researchers Have Uncovered a Hidden Sketch in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch

7 Misconceptions About the Renaissance

12 Illuminating Facts About Mary Cassatt

A Painting by David Bowie Bought at a Thrift Store for $4 Will Sell for More Than $60,000

How the FBI's National Stolen Art File Reunites Lost Works With Their Rightful Owners

16 Priceless Things We've Lost Forever

The Louvre Just Launched a New Online Database With Its Entire Collection—More Than 480,000 Artworks

When Picasso’s Weeping Woman Was Stolen By Art Terrorists

The Reason a Grasshopper Wound Up Stuck in Vincent van Gogh's Painting Olive Trees

Vincent van Gogh’s Rarely Seen Scène de rue à Montmartre to Be Put on Public Display for First Time Ever

8 Facts About Fanny Eaton, Jamaican Muse to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Claude Monet

Researchers Discover New Details In Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring

Vincent van Gogh

Rembrandt van Rijn