Venice was “too beautiful to be painted,” according to Claude Monet. Yet he painted the Italian city anyway.

Even on vacation, the father of French impressionism couldn’t resist the pull of optics and art history. A lush blockbuster ...

PARIS — It was originally meant to be a sort of indoor garden, an oasis in a big city. Instead, the Paris museum gallery that held eight of Claude Monet’s shimmering “water lilies” paintings was drab ...

Claude Monet made water lilies a horticultural star. You’ve surely seen his famous Impressionist paintings of the flowering plants drifting in still waters, with their soothing palette of blues, ...

"It's a project that has difficult loans and will carry a large insurance premium," said C. Griffith Mann, the museum's chief curator. "The museum will call in loan chits" from other institutions.

DENVER (CBS4) - The Denver Art Museum has put together the most comprehensive exhibition of Monet paintings in the U.S. in the last 25 years. The priceless pieces of art are arriving at the Denver ...

LAS VEGAS -- Visitors to Las Vegas have until Sept. 13 to check out the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art's groundbreaking exhibition of the works of French Impressionist painter Claude Monet. "Claude ...

As widely recognized as Leonardo da Vinci’s "Mona Lisa" or Edvard Munch’s "The Scream," one of Claude Monet's celebrated "Water Lilies" paintings has made its debut at the Speed Art Museum, 2035 S.

Monet Mondays, a new feature through January on CPR Classical, will explore the rich catalog of French Impressionist music and its relationship with the art that helped inspire it. Monet Mondays takes ...

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. Haystack at ...