Dec. 4 -- Could the great Johannes Vermeer have used a camera to snap a photo of the "Girl with a Pearl Earring?" Obviously, painters working in the 15th to early 19th century could not have had ...

There are scores of drawing apps for the iPad, ranging from full-featured artistic suites to kid-friendly offerings complete with skeuomorphic crayons and markers. Trace might be the only one built ...

A startling recent theory that Renaissance artists 500 years ago may have used secret optical projectors to enhance realism will be examined in a physics talk Thursday (Nov. 12). David Stork, chief ...