Portraits reflected the values of Renaissance ... Florence, the seat of the Italian Renaissance, first grew as a wool-producing city involved in a network of Mediterranean and Indian Ocean trade ...

The picture – Portrait of a Gentleman ... and an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance style in her own right. The picture shows three figures from a well-to-do family, shown ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis A selection of the bounty from ...

selects 158 of them (including nine which are double-sided), Renaissance drawings were, with a few exceptions, “working tools”. Often, they were preparatory studies for finished paintings or ...

Pourbus, a Northern Renaissance painter working just a ... been rediscovered in an unlikely location. One miniature portrait of an Italian noblewoman, long incorrectly attributed to the painter ...

PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo The painting, "Rest on the Flight into Egypt," by Italian Renaissance artist ... Year-Old ‘Pint-Sized Picasso’ Sells Paintings for Up to $7,000, Says Mom ...

When they first were revealed, the frescoes in the San Brizio Chapel of the majestic cathedral in Orvieto, Italy, both awed visitors and shocked them. The realistic scenes (1499-1504), portraying ...

Victor Coonin, a professor of Italian Renaissance art at Rhodes College ... The Pan statue, Çam said, also resembles Michelangelo's titanic portrait of David. Each stands in almost the same ...