We often talk about the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance as two separate and distinct movements in art history, since the Renaissance began in Italy before spreading out into ...

Thematically, most art portrayed biblical narratives ... Florence, the seat of the Italian Renaissance, first grew as a wool-producing city involved in a network of Mediterranean and Indian ...

Lavinia Fontana, a leading woman painter of the Italian Renaissance, now credited with work a museum in Douai, France, ...

A mere two decades after his death, Dante praised him in “Purgatory.” Two centuries later, Giorgio Vasari pronounced that Cimabue had “shed the first light on the art of painting.” ...

Lavinia Fontana, who lived from 1552 to 1614, is considered one of the first women to make a career out of painting in ...

Drawing the Italian Renaissance (1 November-9 March 2025) includes works by 81 artists spanning 1450 to 1600; more than 150 works will be on display from the Royal Collection, nine of which will ...

A retired painter and decorator who has spent 12 years turning his Brighton home into a work of 15th century art has finished his final room. We spoke to Robert Burns, who has covered every ...

The Pinacoteca won “autonomy” in 2021, a status granted to a growing number of Italian museums since ... more centrally in debates about Renaissance art. Axel Hémery and Cecile Hollberg ...

Because the now-subterranean palace inspired Renaissance artists, experts say the study of these pigments can give insights into ancient and more modern Italian art. Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus ...