Even Eugène Delacroix was almost overwhelmed by the power of his own painting.

A shipwreck in 1816 shocked young artist Théodore Géricault

In 1960, Yves Klein was photographed jumping from the second floor of a building

A small, subversive act that profoundly shook the art world...

Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper is ripe for reinterpretation given its notable absences

Piet Mondrian is one of the pioneers of abstraction

25 naked and languid women loll about as the viewer becomes the voyeur: this is The Turkish Bath by Ingres

The saint that became a gay icon

What is hidden in the image of the ladies-in-waiting?

A pipe which is not a pipe but the representation of a pipe...