The National Gallery has acquired one of the greatest examples of 17th-century Dutch still-life paintings – a rare picture, one of only 14 known to exist, by a pioneering painter of richly laid tables ...

“He seemed proud,” Mr. Dear told the Guardian. The oil painting, completed in 1634, depicts Israelites worshipping a calf while Moses was receiving the tablets of the Ten Commandments. Spray paint, we ...

April 29 (UPI) --A painting of a bacchanal -- long believed to be a copy of one by artist Nicolas Poussin -- has been revealed to be an original by the French painter after a recent evaluation and ...

For decades, a playful painting thought to be a facsimile of a Nicolas Poussin original sat in the storerooms of London’s National Gallery. But this week, the painting was reattributed to the French ...

Hardly anyone dares use the term “High Art” these days—not without high irony—but it’s difficult to know how else to categorize works that present elevated and learned themes with great formal rigor ...

This early work by Nicholas Poussin was initially rejected by experts, in part because of its racy subject matter. The eroticism and looming violence in the painting’s depiction of a nude nymph being ...

Louvre Museum officials have revealed the details of the artworks damaged by the violent storms that shook Paris on July 8-9. Two works by Nicolas Poussin were among those damaged on Sunday July 9, as ...

FORT WORTH (AP) - The Kimbell Art Museum said Friday it had made one of its most important acquisitions, a work by French painter Nicolas Poussin. Poussin's "Sacrament of Ordination (Christ Presenting ...

The highly structured and deeply cerebral paintings of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) have long positioned him as the father of the French Baroque school, and of a revived classical tradition that would ...

Art historians had previously asserted that The Triumph of Silenus was one of several copies after a lost Nicolas Poussin original Anita Singh Arts and Entertainment Editor Anita Singh is the ...

Drunken nymphs ride goats and fight off the attentions of amorous satyrs as a shepherd gets off with a goat-legged woman. Male and female centaurs belabour a donkey with sticks, while a flute player ...

In Poussin and the Dance, the National Gallery tries to show that Poussin could let his hair down, but Alastair Sooke isn't buying it Alastair Sooke has been covering art for the Telegraph since 2003.