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

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

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

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

Frederick Hartt held appointments at various American universities; his History of Italian Renaissance Art, first published in 1969, remains a textbook classic. By a strange twist of fate ...

Within the unassuming exterior of English Martyrs Catholic Church in Goring-by-Sea is a scale replica of the Sistine Chapel's ...

Sandro Botticelli was an Italian early Renaissance painter. Some of his most famous works include The Birth of Venus, ...

Italian artist Titian's 'The Rest on ... back to the end of the first decade of the 16th century A famous painting by Italian Renaissance artist Titian could fetch almost $32 million when it ...

Leonardo da Vinci, history's ultimate genius polymath, still makes headlines as his work inspires new research.

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 ...