WASHINGTON — Painted portraits seem not only archaic but also impractical compared with photographs. A portrait takes devotion, which is why painting a person can be an intimate process, even if ...

That’s true at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has just opened “Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800,” a reinstallation of its core collection. It’s the art event of the year, in ...

If you begin clicking through The Portrait Project's timeline, a strange thing starts to happen around the 1300s. The flat, childish depictions of kings and saints begin to change. Their faces ...

The "emotional power" of these paintings comes from their "mastery of space", said Jonathan Jones in The Guardian.While we think of perspective as a 15th-century Florentine invention, these ...

Faces of the Fallen was an exhibit of more than 1,300 individual portraits created from photographs honoring America's service men and women who were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was ...