painting

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He painted The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, which still hangs in St. John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, and is the only painting Caravaggio ever signed.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2026

Made by artists from the Royal Bureau of Painting, such images documented gatherings of high government officials and were couched in the visual language of earlier Chinese landscape painting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

In Kim Eunho’s 1927 ink and color painting on silk, “Woman Reading the Fortune of the Day,” a hostess in traditional hanbok dress whiles away her break with gaming tiles as a cigarette smolders nearby.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

She’s always painting, drawing, making little sculptures, just always creating.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

One painting showed a forest of black trees with leaves as red as blood.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova