The Spanish painter Diego Rodrguez de Silva y Velazquez made an interesting painting of his assistant in sixteen fifty.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

He is standing in front of a bold and colorful painting similar to those created by the abstract-expressionist artist Jackson Pollock.

VOA: special.2010.09.20

The painting shows a group of sailors struggling to survive on a floating raft after the sinking of their ship,the Medusa.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

His eighteen sixty-six painting "Yosemite Valley" gave many people on the East Coast their first introduction to California's beautiful mountain area.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Leonardo later made his famous painting "The Last Supper" for the dining room of a religious center in Milan.

VOA: special.2010.09.15

The surface of his painting, "Blue Square." is covered in extremely thick blue paint which he applied using his fingers.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

He showed a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's famous "Mona Lisa" painting to one hundred school children from poor city neighborhoods.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

And Neptune with a Trident is helping lay the trans-Atlantic cable which was just being laid when he was painting this."

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Scientists say more information is needed before they can be sure that painting roofs white would help battle rising temperatures.

VOA: special.2010.03.02

Their study considers painting sixty-three percent of rooftops white in one hundred large cities in warm areas around the world.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

When the large painting was shown to the public, thousands of people paid money to see its strikingly real style.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Degas and the Impressionists were interested in painting the effects of light, and how the human eye sees subjects.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

This painting of five women went against the traditional values of artistic representation and changed modern art forever.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

He was famous for painting flowers,buildings and the natural environment in a way that explored color and the changing effects of light.

VOA: special.2010.03.24