Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

Le Châtelet, France - January 29, 2025 Fountain des Innocents (Fountain of the Innocents) in Paris, France. It is one of the city’s oldest monumental fountains, designed during the Renaissance period.

Ancient Greece and Rome may have handed down the image of rosy-cheeked Cupids, but their myths about him explore the messier ...

What is now Flanders in Belgium was a sprawling hub for Renaissance and Baroque art from the 15th-17th centuries ... "Diana Hunting with Her Nymphs," 1636–37. (Courtesy The Phoebus Foundation ...

The death of Marianne Faithfull last week at the age of 78 has got me thinking again about female beauty. The obituaries were ...

Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its ...

This painting was holding a centuries-old secret that art historians were thrilled to find. A close examination of "Ecce Homo ...

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

If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity. What were the ...