Banish thoughts of staid Swiss streets. Zurich boasts a lively cultural scene, great food and acres of natural beauty ...

The Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore was built between 1566 and 1610, designed by Andrea Palladio. To this day, the church is ...

A port, a garden, a mountain, a village, an island... These five places in France immortalised by the Impressionist and ...

"His brushstrokes are minimalist and modernist, and imbued with the expressive spirit of Chinese calligraphy, by which he ...

Claude Monet is most famous as the father of Impressionism. When his eyesight started failing him in his 70s, he had to turn to surgery to save his sight.

On March 28, the Hood Museum of Art debuted its new exhibit on Claude Monet, entitled “Monet: Reimaging the French Landscape.” Hood Museum curator of European Art Elizabeth Rice Mattison curated the ...

Blanche Hoschedé-Monet has barely been acknowledged in art history. But not only did she help her stepfather Claude, she created her own fine works – often of the same scenes as him.

Home to the impressionist painter Claude Monet for half his life and the inspiration for his most famous works – those depicting colourful water-lilies and the Japanese bridge – the Monet Foundation, ...

Claude Monet, one of the most famous French painters, and the ‘Father of Impressionism’. Has many masterpieces to his name. Monet’s signature work had subtle colours, a sense of harmony, the ...

First we meet Oscar, Claude's given name, a teenage caricaturist sketching notable figures in the port city of Le Havre. By ...