Painted sometime between 1767 and 1768, The Swing is a painting consummately devoted to visual pleasures. The swing, with its crimson seat, hangs within a lushly grown garden. Trees, gnarled and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Art is long but lockdowns are short – even if they seem interminable. With museums and galleries closed, or open by appointment only, ...

Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Swing has become even more saucy and titillating. The Wallace Collection’s painting has been cleaned, removing darkened varnish, and the wide-eyed young woman now appears ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a new travel blog. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. At the Fragonard Museum in the southeast of Paris, human fetuses dance a jig alongside ...

I'm not sure a picture is worth a thousand words. But why do some pictures sell for millions and others that seem identical go for just a few dollars? Since February, the Dulwich Picture Gallery in ...

Opening July 6, Fragonard's latest museum in Arles is the story of two dynasties united by friendship, a love for heirloom crafts and a knack for collecting. On one side are the French beauty and ...

Every art lover has experienced this disappointment: You travel somewhere, set on seeing a specific object, and find that it has been lent out, is under restoration, or inexplicably unavailable. If ...