Orsay Museum lets visitors watch art restoration, usually done behind closed doors, as experts scrape 50 years of grime off a ...

PARIS (AP) — As they painstakingly scrape grime off a monumental painting by French artist Gustave Courbet, the restorers do a remarkable job of ignoring their unusual surroundings: They're watched by ...

A Burial at Ornans made Gustave Courbet an enemy of the French art establishment. Now, the life-sized masterwork is undergoing restoration work at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. “This painting is a ...

AS they painstakingly scrape grime off a monumental painting by French artist Gustave Courbet, the restorers do a remarkable ...

PARIS (AP) — As they painstakingly scrape grime off a monumental painting by French artist Gustave Courbet, the restorers do a remarkable job of ignoring their unusual surroundings: They're ...

Courbet's acquaintances in Paris were under the impression—craftily abetted by the artist himself—that he was an ignorant peasant who had stumbled into art. In truth, Jean Désiré-Gustave ...

It is one of the world’s greatest museums and this revamp starts with a thrilling embrace from Leonardo, unfolding to Titian, Van Eyck, Monet and more – all bolstered by cool new architecture and ...

Long perceived as unsettling, the female genital area has been subjected for millennia to more or less invasive acts aimed at ...

The artist’s project, “A Burial in Shanghai,” was developed as a response to the Realist painter Gustave Courbet (1819-77), yet the subject and sentiment is timeless and embodies the artist ...