Research by a UA optics professor suggests some of the Renaissance’s grand masters had a little help with their paintings. Charles Falco, an optical science professor, said his research shows painters ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Botticelli’s Lamentation over the Dead Christ — one of the artworks found by the study to have egg yolk in the paint.Fine Art ...

Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may have cracked one using chemistry and physics. Around the turn of the 15th century in Italy ...

The media blog Fishbowl New York is reporting that the lead paragraph of a July 25 New York Times article by Carol Vogel bears a striking similarity to the Wikipedia entry for its subject, the ...