Forgotten about for years in a Connecticut barn, a painting from 17th century Dutch painter Frans Post fetched more than $7 million in a Sotheby's auction last month. "View of Olinda, Brazil, with the ...

Once you get to that spot, you emerge into a clearing where there is this classicizing temple, and you feel like you have ...

A bust attributed to Renaissance master Donatello re-emerges in Slovakia after falling into obscurity following World War II, ...

A provincial museum in northern France has unveiled a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters of the Italian Renaissance, Lavinia Fontana, but which had languished for decades ...

The 16th century Renaissance-era painting was taken from the civic museum ... years have passed and there has been no response from Italian authorities in relation to the investigation.” ...

1240-1302), the Florentine artist often called the father of Western painting. A mere two decades after his death, Dante praised him in “Purgatory.” Two centuries later, Giorgio Vasari pronoun ...

Drawing the Italian Renaissance features over one hundred and fifty pieces ... were mostly created as preparation for pieces executed in further mediums such as painting, sculpture, and architecture.

If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity. What were the ...

Ari Daniel - Host, "There's More to That" Italian researcher Isabella Dalla Ragione has a most unusual job. An “arboreal archaeologist,” Dalla Ragione scours Renaissance paintings and medieval ...

It delves into the Royal Collection's seemingly "bottomless pit of art treasures" and raids its extraordinary holdings of works on paper from the Italian Renaissance, most of them collected by ...