As a restorer who specialized in late medieval and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, he was in intimate touch with the ...

Henry Clay Frick, aggressive in art collecting as well as business, acquired many of the masterpieces of the museum, whose ...

The man who would become Pope Francis always bought his shoes in the same small store. And now, the remarkably ordinary ...

Two new art exhibits Knights in Armor the Pavia Tapestries and Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka now open at Museum of Fine ...

It’s hard to put into words how much we enjoyed visiting Florence at the end of our most recent trip to Italy. Our ...

National Gallery of Art, Andrew W. Mellon Collection The paintings of Vittore Carpaccio were the graphic novels of the Italian Renaissance. The Venetian, who was born in the 1460s and died in 1525 ...

Villa della Torre represents one of the most precious jewels of the Italian Renaissance. It is the work of the masters ... The first seven, embellished with floral and geometric paintings, are the ...

The National Gallery has revealed it will let a member of the public sleep overnight for the “first time” as the Sainsbury Wing reopens after a two-year refurbishment. Ahead of the Trafalgar ...

Though his work was forgotten for centuries, Arcimboldo is enjoying a personal renaissance, with shows at major European museums. At the Louvre, a series of Arcimboldo paintings is among the most ...

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 ...

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