This 1434 oil on oak painting goes by other names such as The Arnolfini Wedding, The Arnolfini Marriage, and Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife.Created by Netherland native Jan Van Eyck ...

The nine-foot-tall framed oil painting is one of just three life-size paintings of the nation’s 16th president. Lincoln himself was no stranger to the building at 8th and G Streets NW, which ...

The world's most famous paintings: ... The oil-on-canvas work, a duplicate of the original, was completed in 1850, but destroyed in an Allied bombing of Germany during World War II.

So, let us embrace the inevitable, stare death right in the eyes, as we peruse this black-veiled gallery of famous paintings that reflect our mortality back us. William Holbrook Beard, Power of Death, ...