Imagine walking down a street and running into a childhood friend you haven’t seen in decades. Despite the years and the ...

Lavinia Fontana, a leading woman painter of the Italian Renaissance, now credited with work a museum in Douai, France, ...

A painting sitting in storage at a provincial museum in northern France was recently reattributed to Lavinia Fontana, one of ...

Silvio Porzionato will be showcasing his work once again in the Algarve in early April. This time he brings the Blueseries ...

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 ...

The medieval city of Siena is a treasure trove of Renaissance art, which is the focus of a new exhibition at the National ...

The artwork, believed to be the original work of Mantegna, was recently rediscovered in the Sanctuary of Pompeii.

A provincial museum in northern France on Friday showed off a picture now attributed to one of the most remarkable women ...

Lavinia Fontana, who lived from 1552-1614, is seen as one of the very first women to make a career out of painting in Western art, and an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance ...

And it’s not just Montaperti that irks – there’s the Renaissance as well. Ever since the virulently pro-Florentine 16th-century artist and writer Giorgio Vasari drastically downplayed Siena ...

LONDON (AP) — A 16th-century painting stolen more than 50 years ago has been found — and is now at the center of a custody battle between a widow in England and a small Italian museum.