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

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

The name Raphael was rare when when Social Security’s yearly name lists started. Now, there is renaissance of this Renaissance artist’s name.

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 ...

We often talk about the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance as two separate and distinct movements in art history, since the Renaissance began in Italy before spreading out into ...

The artwork had been hiding in plain sight in the archives of a provincial museum in France, where it will eventually go on ...

Drawing the Italian Renaissance (1 November-9 March 2025 ... the head of prints and drawings at the Royal Collection Trust, tells The Art Newspaper: “Rather than any major new research ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering ... and Etruscan and Roman ruins than for its art. But the painters of Renaissance Italy ...

The Germans didn't give reasons for their conclusion. Victor Coonin, a professor of Italian Renaissance art at Rhodes College, offered one: It doesn't have that Michelangelo je ne sais quoi.

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.” ...

For centuries, Italian furniture has been the height of luxury, sophistication, and impeccable craftsmanship. Admired for its ...