Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian The Peacock Room, named for the birds Whistler painted on its shutters and walls, reflects the tension between the artist and his first significant patron.

There are blue paint colors, there are green paint colors - and then there are the ones that live somewhere in between. At ...

Brading Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight was first excavated in 1880-1881 revealing rooms with elaborate mosaic floors and many fragments of painted wall plaster. This fragment shows a peacock ...