A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory ...

The film "Recognition of Man" explores the Renaissance era, highlighting the revival of classical ideals and the emergence of ...

Discover the beauty of Renaissance paintings, where art, realism, and storytelling blend to create timeless masterpieces that ...

But, by the 1350s, its "most glorious years" would be "as good as over". The Black Death "halved" the city's population and ...

Italian art lovers want the return of a stolen Renaissance painting but its English owner is refusing. In 1973, ‘Madonna and ...

Works the size of postcards and bathroom tiles are challenging the market’s appetite for grand scales.

The 16th century Renaissance-era painting was taken from the civic museum ... ‘Madonna and Child’ has been on Interpol’s stolen art database ever since the incident, despite it being known ...

There’s a reassuring sense that even in the 14th century, there was a lot going on well outside the mainstream ...

A groundbreaking show at the Louvre dedicated to the medieval painter Cimabue includes an exceptionally rare panel discovered ...

Like many women artists of earlier centuries whose work has survived, Artemisia came from a family of artists. Born in Rome in 1593, she was the oldest and most artistically inclined child of the ...

A mere two decades after his death, Dante praised him in “Purgatory.” Two centuries later, Giorgio Vasari pronounced that Cimabue had “shed the first light on the art of painting.” ...