For the first time, the Prado museum in Spain is bringing together eight seminal artworks by the Greek artist El Greco.
The Assumption of the Virgin’ – which belongs to the Art Institute of Chicago – was last displayed in the Madrid art gallery ...
Nine monumental paintings by El Greco once decorated monastery walls in Toledo, Spain, where the Greek-born artist spent most ...
Fra Angelico is one of the most important painters of the first half of the Italian Quattrocento (15th century). He is the patron saint of painters and artists.
Perched on a chunk of volanic stone in Umbria, this small city offers a well-preserved, almost traffic-free world highlighted ...
On a peninsula washed by the clear waters of the Zêzere River, Dornes seems like a timeless place where knights and legends ...
In 1481, Augustinian friars hired Leonardo to paint a massive altarpiece. He was to depict a frequently painted Bible scene in which three kings visit the newborn Jesus and recognize him as the ...
X-ray and infrared imaging has revealed a long-hidden painting beneath "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto," providing researchers with new insights into the artist's blue period Ella Jeffries ...
The Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d'Autun, also known as the Autun Cathedral, was built in the 12th century as a Roman Catholic cathedral and storehouse of the relics of St. Lazarus. Of particular note ...