On April 6th, we celebrate the Raphae’s birthday, one of the greatest masters of the Italian Renaissance: Born in 1483 in ...

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

“It’s an Italian painting, Bolognese in spirit from A to Z ... Instead, it belongs to the oeuvre of Lavinia Fontana, a ...

PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo The painting, "Rest on the Flight into Egypt," by Italian Renaissance artist Titian could fetch almost $32 million when it goes to auction in July The artwork was ...

When it comes to the Renaissance greats, Raphael surely needs no introduction. His huge impact on the course of Western art ...

The tender family portrait had been wrongly attributed to a male painter of the Northern Renaissance.

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering ... Dalla Ragione assesses a Renaissance painting, she doesn’t immediately notice the ...

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 ...

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

Antonio Calanni / 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.

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.” ...