The restored painting by French master Jean-Antoine Watteau features a figure that looks suspiciously like the artist.

Florence, Italy, is where the Renaissance was born and where art changed forever. Known as the birthplace of this influential ...

T he Italian Renaissance was a remarkable moment in the development of art, when many of the most revered creations of all ...

Bona Sforza, the only Italian queen on the Polish throne, was a powerful and influential figure whose reputation has long been tainted by a dark legend. Despite her contributions to spreading ...

London: Verso. Babinger, F. 1962. “Notes on Cyriac of Ancona and Some of His Friends.” JWarb 25(3/4):321–23. Baldwin, R. 1990. “Triumph and the Rhetoric of Power in Italian Renaissance Art.” Source: ...

Artists who in earlier times had toiled as anonymous craftsmen were now famous and well paid ... of how the cultural explosion of the Italian Renaissance was destined to reverberate far and ...

She argues that depictions of these miracles by artists-both famous (Donatello, Titian) and anonymous-played a critical role ... or printed-operated as active agents of 'lived religion' and social ...

Uncover the untold story of African people who lived during the Italian Renaissance, often appearing in famous paintings only to be unacknowledged and hidden in plain ...

Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael at Royal Academy of Arts. 9 November 2024 - 16 February 2025, £19-21 for adults.

Bjarne Melgaard’s rise in the art world came with strings attached and an unusual contract with investors. Now he’s suing to ...

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The American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York is being transformed into a venue for visual and performing artists and ...