These portraits of famous people remind us that art often tells only part of the story. The truth behind these images can be far more complex and fascinating than the faces we see on canvas.

Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works ... a way in which no artist previously had thought about let alone attempted. Ross King For the most part, Last Supper paintings would be very ...

Artist Guan Qingsheng from China uses a pencil, knife and a piece of wire to engineer life-like portraits of famous people on chicken eggs. The 62-year-old artist used to work as a designer at a ...

Sotheby's London will auction George Stubbs's "The Spanish Pointer," a dog painting that is perhaps the British artist's most ...

Even with artists and paintings, Japan did not disappoint and produced some masterpieces that are loved by people all around the world. One of the most famous and easily recognisable Japanese ...

Masterpiece – Roy Lichtenstein Roy Lichtenstein, an American pop artist, is famous for his paintings that seem to have ...