The beauty and majesty of birds — from hawks to hornbills — through the eyes of one of the world’s most notable wildlife artists are explored in a new exhibit at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural ...

For more than 400 years, an oil painting titled Air by Flemish master Jan Brueghel the Elder has been hiding a scientific ...

Ann Craven: Birds We Know installation view (all images courtesy of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art; photograph by Dave Clough) ROCKLAND, Maine — Birds have a long and varied history in art, ...

A 1611 painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder depicts greater noctule bats hunting birds in flight, predating scientific evidence ...

Facsimile painting of the west wall from the “Green Room” in the North Palace at Amarna (Public Domain; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: accession no. 30.4.134). Credit: Antiquity A ...

Two beloved paintings have swapped locations for a while. One went from California to London; the other, from London to California. No passports were involved. But the two museums where the paintings ...

Zhu Da (1626–1705), “Flowers on a River” (1697), hand scroll; ink on paper, 19 × 508 7/8 inches (collection of the Tianjin Museum) A rare exhibition of Chinese painting in Manhattan is drawing acclaim ...

Leonardo da Vinci was a pioneering painter and inventor—and, perhaps, bird lady. Avians appear in a number of the 13,000 notebook pages he produced, from the kite hawks of Codex Atlanticus (c. 1478) ...

In Chinese culture, many birds are endowed with strong symbolic associations, both on their own and especially in combination with certain auspicious flowers. In the 10th century, birds and flowers ...

Leonardo da Vinci during his lifetime was renowned as the very embodiment of the Renaissance ideal, the “universal man,” at once a brilliant painter, muralist, draftsman, engineer and architect. But ...