It gave him that feeling of recognizing an old friend. Originally attributed to Pieter Pourbus, a Flemish Renaissance artist who worked in Bruges during the 16th century, the painting depicts an ...

A researcher thinks a satyr with an erect penis and ugly laugh could secretly be the Renaissance master's self-portrait. Is it? Some 400 years ago, Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi — whose family ...

It is a lucky artist whose doings are chronicled by his very own Vasari, the sixteenth century Italian who acted as a biographer to Renaissance masters including Raphael and Michelangelo.

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

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 ...