Research by a UA optics professor suggests some of the Renaissance’s grand masters had a little help with their paintings. Charles Falco, an optical science professor, said his research shows painters ...

The Renaissance, often hailed as one of the most transformative periods in human history, gave rise to an unparalleled explosion of creativity. For anyone who’s stood before the Sistine Chapel or ...

If you don’t know the name Artemisia Gentileschi, you should. The Italian painter was breaking glass ceilings and busting through old boys’ clubs back in the Renaissance. “What few people realize is ...

Follower of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” (c. 1550/1575), oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress collection A fungal infection known as ergotism influenced Northern Renaissance ...

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) debuted its latest exhibition on Oct. 16: “Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi.” The exhibition marks the first collaboration ...

They were famous in their day, but the female Renaissance artists Lavinia Fontana (1535–1625) and Sofonisba Anguissola (1552–1614) quickly slipped into obscurity. The latter’s paintings have been ...

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In the galleries of The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I stood just feet away from a room filled with large and magnificent paintings by Aaron ...

Classic European paintings — Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo, with images of bacchanals, figures in the landscape, characters from myth, and scenes from Christian allegories — provide source material ...

Prehistoric paintings survive on cave walls. And today, charming rocks decorated to look like turtles or ladybugs turn up under trees or on window sills. Judith W. Mann, a curator of European art at ...

In 1480, Andrea Mantegna perfected a technique new to artists: foreshortening. In his famous painting, “The Lamentation Over the Dead Christ,” Christ’s body looks short because of how it’s angled ...