If you believed the old art critics, you'd gather that the whole point of painting was to create perfect illusions. The art legends of the ancient world glorify the sheer power of deception. One ...

In Diego Velázquez’s cryptic Las Meninas (1656), a portrait session appears to be in progress. The young Infanta Margaret Theresa, King Philip IV of Spain’s first child, is resplendently posed in the ...

MADRID - A new exhibition at Madrid's Prado museum is throwing a spotlight on the reverse side of paintings, letting visitors see labels, seals and sketches that are usually hidden from view. The aim ...

A LONG-lost painting by one of Scotland's most famous artists has been found on the back of another work that has hung for decades in an Edinburgh home. The family had planned for restoration work to ...

A view of the exhibition galleries of "On the Reverse" at the Prado Museum © Museo Nacional del Prado Unsuspecting visitors to the Prado Museum’s newest exhibition ...

The aim of the Reversos (On the Reverse) exhibition is to change the viewer's point of view and take them behind the scenes to open a "door to the secrets of art," said its curator, Miguel Angel ...