The Milwaukee Public Museum Art Museum and Betty Brinn Children's Museum all have free admission days this July.

"John Singer Sargent loved people, and it shows," said Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic. Born to American parents who'd become ...

The British painter has dedicated her career to depicting human flesh, especially that of women, with deep empathy.

Renowned for his portrait paintings, John Singer Sargent was one of the most remarkable artists of the Edwardian era. He combined influences and left careful references, including those to the works ...

In the 1630s, Diego Velázquez unveiled his equestrian portrait of Isabel of Bourbon, depicting the queen atop a white steed in a resplendently detailed robe. It was a breathtaking painting but ...

Diego Velázquez’s “Queen Mariana of Austria” (1652-53), a monumental portrait of the daughter of the Hapsburg Emperor Ferdinand III, is at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif., ...

57.8 x 42.9 cm. (22.8 x 16.9 in.) From whom acquired by Sir Francis Cook (1817-1901), 1st Baronet and 1st Viscount of Monserrate, 1892, Doughty House, Richmond (as Velázquez); Thence by descent to his ...

At 14, Mariana married her uncle, Spain’s King Philip IV, then 44. The theatrical portrait has been shown in the United States only once before, in New York in 1989. Philip IV was in trouble.

Enter Mariana, the subject of an extraordinary, monumental full-length portrait painted by the Spanish genius Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, loaned by Madrid’s Prado Museum to Pasadena ...

“Mariana: Velázquez’s Portrait of a Queen from the Museo Nacional del Prado” will be on view at the Norton Simon Museum, 411 W. Colorado Blvd. at Orange Grove Boulevard, Pasadena ...