Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing ...

French museum uncovers in storage picture by Renaissance woman master A provincial museum in northern France on Friday showed off a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters of the ...

A painting of Christ being laid in the tomb, long hidden under layers of overpainting and forgotten by history, will once again be visible to the public in an upcoming exhibit at ...

The European Renaissance often holds a charmed place in popular imagination, and its artists are central to that perception. The topic for the next Lifelong Learning Institute of Elkhart County class ...

A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory ...

Italian art lovers want the return of a stolen Renaissance painting but its English owner is refusing. In 1973, ‘Madonna and ...

A Titian Madonna, a swashbuckling Medieval codex and a set of wearable Egyptian amulets are among the treasures at this ...

Its chief rival, Florence, emerged as the new superpower, its own art eclipsing Siena's ... was "the birthplace of the Renaissance", said Joanna Moorhead in The Spectator. And convincingly ...

1240-1302), the Florentine artist often called the father of Western painting. A mere two decades after his death, Dante praised him in “Purgatory.” Two centuries later, Giorgio Vasari pronoun ...

In 1973, ‘Madonna and Child’ by Antonio Solario was stolen. The 16th century Renaissance-era painting was taken from the civic museum in the town of Belluno in the Dolomite mountains of ...