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 ...

If you’re a huge fan of Renaissance art, you should definitely take a trip to Florence, Naples or Rome. There are many ...

The Mona Lisa hasn't always been a huge tourist attraction. It turns out the most famous painting in the world owes its ...

Welcome to the first episode of our brand-new Italy series. Hidden in the heart of the Italian countryside lies a breathtaking Renaissance palace, once owned by a wealthy lawyer couple who used it as ...

Lavinia Fontana, who lived from 1552-1614, is seen as one of the very first women to make a career out of painting in Western art, and an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance ...

When it comes to the Renaissance greats, Raphael surely needs no introduction. His huge impact on the course of Western art ...

Italian Embassy's Cultural Centre showcases Caravaggio's “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy” in India, marking the first display of the master’s work in the country If an Italian renaissance artist ...

Sixty years later, my heart is still filled with wonder and happiness from seeing Michelangelo's sculpture, one of the ...

A monumental altarpiece by Fra Angelico, hailed as representing a critical turning point in Western art, has been ... in the birth of Renaissance painting, not only in Italy but also at a European ...

And with the mass numbers in some of these Prado paintings, why not ask A.I ... Rose), a work thought to have been painted by the Italian Renaissance master Raphael around 1517.

Last year, Bonnaure’s museum called on experts like Costamagna, who specializes in Florentine and Roman art, as part of an effort to study and restore its collection of Italian paintings.

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 ...