In 1911, a mysterious thief slipped the Mona Lisa out of the Louvre, shocking the world. The disappearance set off a global ...

The Mona Lisa hasn't always been a huge tourist attraction. It turns out the most famous painting in the world owes its ...

It seems like humans always need to know who or what is the best in any category. Renaissance people were no different. A ...

The School of Athens, one of the most famous frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. The Medieval and Renaissance Studies ... of disciplinary perspectives by selecting from designated ...

If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries ... hierarchies one finds in exhibitions of Renaissance art—those that favor the famous over the unknown or anonymous, the beautifully ...

NEW ALBANY – Sandro Botticelli was an Italian early Renaissance painter. Some of his most famous works include The Birth of ...

Renaissance paintings ... scouring the masterpieces of 15th- and 16th-century art for answers to one of the great questions of Italian agriculture: Whatever happened to the boisterous selection ...

In 2014, art historian Mina Gregori said she had found 17th century painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's 'Magdalene in ...

A church near the West Sussex coast contains an homage to one of Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo's most famous works. Within the unassuming exterior of English Martyrs Catholic Church in ...