The painting, protected by a thick layer of glass ... Leonardo ushers me back to the Renaissance. I can almost hear whispers of the artist as I gaze at a leather album bound in the late 1500s ...

In the Legion of Honor’s Renaissance gallery ... or even that it was made following her death as a memorial image for Bianca’s family. Indeed, the painting remained with Bianca’s descendants.

The frescoes in the Sistine Chapel were arguably the greatest works of Renaisssance art. As his career escalated, Michelangelo became a hard-nosed businessman and by the time of his death had ...

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 ...

A painting of Christ being laid in the tomb, long hidden under layers of overpainting and forgotten by history, will once again be visible to the public in an upcoming exhibit at ...