Francis Bacon, a painter known for his obsession with the male figure, painted the last moments of his lover's life as he ...

Notably, a very faded painting of the crucifixion scene with Jesus on the cross was also uncovered, the image of his crown of ...

A far-right Greek lawmaker attacked four paintings in an exhibition at the country's National Gallery on Monday, the gallery said, after he had described one as offensive because of its distorted ...

Steen Heidemann’s collection will be installed as a semi-permanent exhibition in the Toledo Cathedral in Spain.

Greece's National Gallery said a Greek lawmaker on Monday attacked four paintings in an exhibition at the museum in Athens, including one he had previously criticized as offensive on religious grounds ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 79 ...

Nikolaos Papadopoulos, of the small right-wing, ultra-religious Niki party, attacked the paintings in The National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum. The exhibition includes works that caricature ...

Papadopoulos previously said in parliament that one of the Greek paintings was offensive to ... asserting that it insulted the Virgin Mary and Christ. The Culture Ministry responded that it ...