The allure of finding lost art treasures is real, but proving authorship—and determining an artwork’s commercial value—can be ...

In colonial Latin America – called “New Spain” by European colonists – images of a white Jesus reinforced a caste system where white, Christian Europeans occupied the top tier, while those with darker ...

As a European Renaissance art historian, I study the evolving image ... the line between the holy face and his own image in a famous self-portrait of 1500. In this, he posed frontally like an ...

Parts of the wooden truss structure date to the 15th century, and holes in the timbers allow dirty water to drip upon the precious paintings and ... for a mosaic of the Magi shown wearing Persian ...

European monarchs and religious entities had a penchant for erecting massively elaborate and intricately beautiful monuments ...