While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta.

In 1594, a newly ordained young cardinal, Odoardo Farnese – the recent beneficiary of a tremendous fortune – commissioned the ...

High Renaissance artist and architect Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino ... Italy's national gallery of ancient art at Palazzo Barberini houses Raphael's portrait of Raphael’s muse and mistress: Margherita ...

He chases and captures the beautiful wood nymph Chloris. She is dressed in a diaphanous ... when blood was shed by Christ’s sacrifice. Paintings in the Middle Ages and Renaissance often depicted Mary ...

His large-scale works stem from a fascination with the power of narrative, connecting the Western art historical canon—especially Renaissance titans like Caravaggio—with contemporary experiences of ...

When they first were revealed, the frescoes in the San Brizio Chapel of the majestic cathedral in Orvieto, Italy, both awed visitors and shocked them. The realistic scenes (1499-1504), portraying ...

We are talking about an art exhibition that’s being hosted by Renaissance Business Bay. It speaks of creativity and cultural immersion, which will be happening along the Dubai Water Canal. Here’s all ...

Originally attributed to Pieter Pourbus, a Flemish Renaissance artist who worked in Bruges during the 16th century, the painting depicts an austere man and his young daughter in matching ruffs.

The famed Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Botticelli introduced the greatest Renaissance paintings to the world. Thailand introduces its own postcard-painting Renaissance to travelers.

A provincial museum in northern France has unveiled a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters of the Italian Renaissance, Lavinia Fontana, but which had languished for decades ...

The Vatican has been home to the Pope since the 14th century, and now more than six million people flock to visit the city-state every year. There, they marvel at masterpieces including ...