A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological site of Dolní Věstonice in the Czech Republic in the 1920s, is considered ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has acquired the earliest known photograph of a US First ...

The image captured crowds of onlookers standing outside the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol—which was still under construction at the time. The foreground area was actually a stone yard that had been ...

Born in Maryland in 1741, Peale is famous for his paintings of Washington, who sat for seven portraits between 1772 and 1795. His 1772 painting, which depicts Washington as a colonel in Virginia, is ...

Also depicted is a young slave, the earliest known portrait of an African in Norfolk by almost 200 years.

Historians recently made an unexpected discovery while examining one of Pablo Picasso’s paintings: a portrait of a woman.

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has acquired the earliest known photograph of a US first lady.

Unlike other objects from the site — such as the Venus of Vĕstonice, which lacks facial features — this face seems to be individualized, making it the earliest known depiction of a specific ...