Works newly attributed to the Renaissance artist had exciting stories behind them. But experts say they are unlikely to be by ...
“Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be the first ever to showcase the history of a peculiar and little-known practice of ...
What would the Renaissance be without its mysteries and tantalizing gossip? In the spirit of Georgio Vasari's original Renaissance tabloid, The Lives of the Artist, we've compiled a list of the latest ...
It’s difficult to imagine a time when images of our faces were not only rare and expensive, but treated almost as sacred objects. But in 15th- and 16th-century Europe, portraits were often obscured ...
The present work, Details of Renaissance Paintings (Piero della Francesca, Madonna del Duca da Montefeltro, circa 1472), is a unique screenprint by Andy Warhol. Coming from his 1984 portfolio of ...
Italian researcher Isabella Dalla Ragione has a most unusual job. An “arboreal archaeologist,” Dalla Ragione scours Renaissance paintings and medieval archives, discovering endangered fruits that ...