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

With its implication that the young woman isn’t as chaste as she should be, the marriage-prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative ...

In colonial Latin America – called “New Spain” by European colonists – images of a white Jesus reinforced a caste system where white, Christian Europeans occupied the top tier, while those with darker ...

Christian Palestinian tattoo artist Walid Ayash draws a tattoo on the arm of a Coptic Egyptian pilgrim on April 28, 2016, at his studio in Bethlehem. Thomas Coex /AFP via Getty Images ...

What do you think about when you hear the phrase “psychedelic art?” If your first association is pulsating mandalas, adventurous guitar solos, and legions of hippies dropping out of college to follow ...

DOWNTOWN DETROIT (WXYZ) — Detroiters are reacting to Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan's vision for the future of the Renaissance Center. He revealed the latest plan for ...

Installation view of the Hall of Sculpture at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (1907 ... Gothic portals, Renaissance balconies, niches and choir stalls; parapets and balustrades, sarcophagi ...

A painting sitting in storage at a provincial museum in northern France was recently reattributed to Lavinia Fontana, one of the foremost female painters of the Italian Renaissance. The painting in ...

The exhibition 3-D: Focus on the Figure open from December 18 at the Flint Institute of Arts and continues through January 30, 2011.

Entitled, 'Artemisia, l'héroïne de l'art' ('Artemisia ... one of the most remarkable Renaissance collections outside Italy, so much so as to make it an "almost Italian" museum.

The recent scientific analysis of a mysterious painting that hung in a church in Pompeii for centuries has revealed it to be by the Renaissance ... returning to art history a masterpiece that ...