Explore the captivating world of chiaroscuro, from Renaissance paintings to modern films, creating depth and emotion through ...

A forthcoming show of drawings at the Getty, The Lost Murals of Renaissance Rome, explores what was, in all likelihood, the biggest waste of time in the history of art. On September 3, the ...

The best view of Spain’s ancient capital Toledo is from Mirador del Valle—a lookout point to the south of the city that gives ...

Rome is a blockbuster European city break. Nothing makes you feel like a blip in time quite like a stay in the Eternal City ...

It is true that some Renaissance artists ... greeting’ to a fellow artist, then dashing off to draw Masaccio frescoes in a church, ‘waving as he went’. If he starts out like the late Queen Mother, he ...

Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...

Workers uncovered elaborate frescoes hidden behind a mantel in a church. The glittering works of art are revealing more about ...

A new exhibition at Buckingham Palace features over 150 Renaissance drawings by masters like Raphael, Michelangelo, and ...

A rare portrait by Bernardino de’ Conti, a peer of Leonardo da Vinci, set a record at Sotheby's Master Paintings auction.

When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown professional man" standing at a desk Sonja Anderson Created around 1503, ...

By Siddhartha Mitter A jury found them guilty of conspiring as part of a crew to steal art, sports memorabilia ... traces the evolution of tarot from Renaissance Italy to the present day, with ...

Moretto canvas was on display in Brescia when the accident occurred. A 16th-century painting by Renaissance artist Moretto was damaged after a museum visitor in the northern Italian city of Brescia ...