(CNN) — Irreplaceable art works by Picasso, Rembrandt, Goya and M.C. Escher are among those feared lost after a fire swept through a Seattle art gallery on Friday, the gallery’s manager told CNN.

Loan exhibitions attract attention not only because they show the work of great artists but because they give the public a chance to view intimately the trappings of private wealth. Both these ...

David Hockney is one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Perhaps best known for his serial paintings of swimming pools, portraits of friends, and verdant landscapes, the ...

“Sometimes you are just scared of writing about the objects in your deepest affection,” said Robert Hughes, reflecting on the 50-year artistic love affair that finally produced his latest book, on ...

Born on March 30, 1746, in Fuendetodos, Aragón, Spain, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes emerged from a modest background. His father, José Benito de Goya y Franque, a gilder by trade, and his mother ...

You might think that connecting Francisco Goya’s brutal "The Disasters of War" etchings with Jean-Honore Fragonard’s sensuous "Aurora Triumphing Over Night" would be a stretch. In Fragonard’s frothy ...

Sean Scully is an American-Irish artist known for his abstract paintings composed of brushy layers of alternating colored squares or stripes. Though his non-representational works appear to have no ...