Each artist left behind their own distinctive mark on the painting, now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National ...

She had a pricey piece of history hiding in plain sight. An elderly woman kept what she thought was an “old religious painting” between the kitchen and sitting room of her apartment in Compiègne, a ...

Animals, Birds and Insects -- Flowers, Trees and Plants -- Earth and Sky -- The Human Body -- The Old Testament -- St. John the Baptist -- The Virgin Mary -- Jesus Christ -- The Trinity, the Madonna ...

One could say that some paintings in the exhibition “Siena: The Rising of Painting, 1300-1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are movie stills and posters. They look like photographs ...

The Vatican Museums opened Thursday an exhibit of recently restored paintings of the Virgin Mary by early Renaissance painter Carlo Crivelli. "The Vatican painting gallery has the privilege of having ...

A Renaissance painting once lost to history has broken records for an auction house. Created by Pietro Vannucci, also known as Perugino (1450–1523), the painting, featuring Madonna and a child, has ...

For the first time in 40 years, Italian Renaissance master Donatello (ca. 1386–1466) has a major solo show—and the curator, Francesco Caglioti, hopes the blockbuster exhibition will help elevate the ...