The painting by Cornelius Gijsbrechts called The Reverse Side of a Painting is exactly that. On a medium-sized canvas, the artist has painted the likeness of a framed painting, seen from behind ...

When Vincent Van Gogh was low on money he took to painting on both sides of the canvas, but over the years some of his reverse side paintings were covered up and lost. Now, another of his hidden ...

The HistorianOf all the extinct trades and crafts practiced in the 19th century, probably none is more obscure than reverse glass painting. Yet even this little known art was mastered in the 20th ...

The Prado Museum’s New Show Reveals a Rarely Seen Side of Paintings: Their Reverse "On the Reverse" brings together about 100 works, displayed so their backs face the viewers. Bernard van Orley ...

Another painting, a portrait of a man by the 15th-century painter Jacometto, features on its reverse side a delicately rendered male deer in a chained collar — a symbol of fidelity.

Using this image as a starting point, as well as its corresponding physical canvas, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz recreated Las Meninas’ reverse side, faithfully mirroring the various markings and ...

A hidden self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh has been discovered behind one of his paintings, covered by layers of glue and cardboard for more than a century.. The image was found when art ...

The painting, a valuable copy on reverse glass of a well-known image painted by American artist Gilbert Stuart, was turned over to Englewood police after a tip to Crime Stoppers.

Sometimes getting your art displayed at one of Europe’s finer museums is just a matter of hanging it there yourself. On Monday, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich reported a reverse heist of ...