Madhubani art is said to date back to the time of the Ramayana. According to legend, King Janaka, father of Sita, commissioned artists to paint his daughter’s wedding with Rama on the walls of his ...

In 1772, Joseph Banks commissioned the foremost painter of animals in England, George Stubbs, to paint a dingo and a kangaroo. To our modern eyes the paintings lack the vitality and strength of the ...

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I'm always fascinated by drawings and paintings created by nonhuman animals (animals). Many remind me of the artwork produced by humans, including some world-famous artists, and I often wonder what ...

Scientists recently confirmed that the Greater noctule bat eats birds — but a 400-year-old painting suggests this was known ...

The dating of an exceptionally old cave painting of animals that was found recently on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is reported in our paper out today. The painting portrays images of the ...

A pig painting inside an Indonesian cave has been dated to 43,900 years old, making it among the oldest—if not the oldest—known figurative art piece in the archaeological record. The painting was ...

In 2005, three works of art by a relatively unknown artist sold for more than $25,000 at an elite auction house in London. That’s not a huge amount as art sales go, but it made headlines because the ...