This half-length portrait painting has been described as the most visited and written-about work in the art world. It is believed to depict the famous Italian woman, Lisa del Giocondo. The Mona ...

Several years ago, the owners of an old, dusty painting walked into an art gallery in Vienna. They presented experts with a ...

so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of status that were long denied to people of color in European-controlled territories, serve as a cultural acknowledgment of their ...