The story of Kraków is one of light and shadow, where Middle Ages and Renaissance chapters contrast with darker pages from ...

Something The Mona Lisa, David, and The School of Athens all have in common is they represent a way of thinking that was shaping and being shaped by the visual arts of that period. From the 14th ...

A weekly crosstown bus from their Upper West Side apartment to look at some art seemed like ... of children in the Renaissance—not great. (“I mean, in the early Nativity scenes, Jesus is ...

features diverse artefacts that illustrate the wonders of Coptic art. The exhibition highlights include rare icons depicting the nativity of Christ, intricate wooden carvings, and ceramic and ...

A few years of reconstruction later, it had gained the neo-Renaissance look that can be seen in the photos ... and the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary standing in the distance. When ...

Duke University Press have just published a new volume on Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art by the ... of the Italian Renaissance, reinterprets the theme with a strong symbolic density, placing ...

Featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and others, a show at the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace highlights ...

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 ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

This painting was holding a centuries-old secret that art historians were thrilled to find. A close examination of "Ecce Homo" by Renaissance artist Titian revealed another painting underneath.

This painting was holding a centuries-old secret that art historians were thrilled to find. A close examination of "Ecce Homo ...