The Arts Story Briefs

Emotionally upset, and in the throes of depression, Verdi makes a decision. It is 1840, and he's had it with composing music. Then ... an unexpected e...

One of Princess Diana's favorite songs was beautifully performed at her funeral by Lynne Dawson.

Joseph Mallord William Turner, a British artist who lived between 1775-1851, created this watercolor called “Vesuvius in Eruption” sometime betwee...

Domenikos Theotokopoulos (1541-1614), a famous painter better known as El Greco (“The Greek”), painted several views of the Spanish city o...

Vincent liked this painting of his bedroom at Arles (which he created in October of 1888).

Vincent created Starry Night in June, 1889, while he was a patient in a Saint-Remy asylum.

The interior of Goupil Cies Gallery in The Hague, Netherlands. For a time, Vincent van Gogh worked here, as an art dealer.

Although Vincent van Gogh could not sell his own paintings, today his art work sells for millions of dollars. This story is about his painting called ...

Although his paintings sell for millions of dollars today, Vincent van Gogh was unable to sell his artwork during his lifetime. Who was this prolific ...

Today Vincent van Gogh, the Dutch painter, is one of the world's most-beloved artists.

This image depicts a fresco which was discovered in a Pompeii home known as the House of the Centenary.

This image depicts a page from the Visconti Book of Hours. The original illumination - created by Luchino Belbello da Pavia, circa 1430 - measures&nbs...