An oil painter also needs to be good at blending, giving texture, and should be extremely patient, as oil paints dry slowly. Here are 6 most famous oil paintings ever created.

It's the artist's magnum opus. The oil painting depicts Lisa del Giocondo, an Italian noblewoman, and was constructed with the model staring directly forward.

In a small village in China, artists create replicas of famous works of art. After spending six years there, UC Berkeley ...

Story at a glance “Girl with a Pearl Earring” is a famous oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, a Dutch artist of the Golden Age. It was originally painted around 1665 but has since been restored ...

The group said Monday that the two activists chose to target Velázquez’s 17th century oil painting, one of the Spanish artist’s most celebrated masterpieces, because it was previously slashed ...