N.H., and expert on Renaissance and Baroque art, hit what he hoped was glory in 2001. He had heard that the museum owned a painted stucco relief of the Madonna and Child by the 15th-century Florentine ...

After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great ...

Fortunately, anyone can appreciate art, especially with guidance from the 15th-century Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was an artist driven by “wanting to know.” He considered ...

This is the down-to-earth subject of a 15th-century sketch by an unidentified ... Raphael, that famous lover, was one of only a handful of Renaissance artists to draw from the nude female model.

The Kingdom of Kotte named after Kotte, the then capital of Sri Lanka first ruled by King Parakramabahu VI (1414-1467) ...