"I immediately thought it was a work of Italian primitivism. But I didn't imagine it was a Cimabue," said the auctioneer who was first to examine the painting.

An image of “The Deposition of Christ,” recently attributed to Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna, is seen in this photo ...

Day, the author of Baby Meets World, wrote his narrative nonfiction as an account of the attempt to steal the Mona Lisa in ...

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

The painting, 'Portrait of a Gentleman, his Daughter and a Servant,' is now attributed to Lavinia Fontana, one of the very ...

his pioneering yet rudimentary attempts at perspective helped usher in the early Italian Renaissance, so playing an instrumental role in changing the course of Western art forever. To the shock ...

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 ...

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 ...

The medieval city of Siena is a treasure trove of Renaissance art, which is the focus of a new exhibition at the National Gallery. Michael Hodges heads to Tuscany to experience the magic for himself ...

art historians have been giving Florence the credit for starting the Renaissance. But as will become clear in a revelatory new show at the National Gallery in London, featuring artists like Duccio ...