Raphael and Dürer struck up a long-distance friendship when they were at the peak of their popularity, living over 600 miles ...

In “Superfine,” the Africana-studies scholar Monica L. Miller explores the links between style, self-presentation, and ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.

For a decade or so on either side of World War II, Shahn’s achievements made him an art star, earning him a major show at the ...

A pair of paintings by Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals that possibly depict his own children are returning to the ...

For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for ...

A study published in the book Genìa Da Vinci revealed that Leonardo da Vinci has at least six living male descendants who ...

Published in a new book, the elaborate family tree goes back to 1331 to Michele, the great-great-great grandfather of the ...

They who while living had mingled their interests, fortunes, counsels, nay rather souls,” reads their tombstone, “might in ...

He created thousands of drawings in his notebooks in which he wrote obsessively, and while hundreds of these sketches by the Renaissance ... known portrait by Leonardo of a solo male sitter.

One eye-catching object from the film made an impact on art fans: Boy with Apple, the “priceless Renaissance portrait” that is unexpectedly inherited by Ralph Fiennes’s eccentric character ...