The French landscape painter, draftsman, and etcher Claude Lorrain (1600-1682) was regarded as the prince of landscape painters until the days of impressionism in the mid-19th century. Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin were the most distinguished...

How did a 17th-century French pastry chef end up shaping how the English felt about their gardens? For the answer to that riddle, see the remarkable drawings of that onetime cook, now on view in the National Gallery of Art in "Claude Lorrain...

You may have picked up the idea that a good work of art is unalterable. It is put together so well that nothing can be changed, nothing added, nothing taken away, without doing it harm. It is the test and the mark of a...

The vivid sunsets painted by J.M.W. Turner are revered for their use of color and light and for their influence on the Impressionists. But could they also help global warming experts track climate change?A group of scientists has studied the colors in more than 500...

Exhibits of J.M.W. Turner's work in recent years have shown snapshots of the famous British landscape painter's travels, styles and illustrations of history. Now the broad range of his six-decade career comes together in the largest Turner retrospective ever presented in the United States."J.M.W. Turner"...