These artists have had a profound impact on society, culture, and history by shaping artistic movements and sparking ...

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

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

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A study published in the book Genìa Da Vinci revealed that Leonardo da Vinci has at least six living male descendants who share his Y chromosome, according to Il Giornale. For the first time, an ...

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

Centrepiece of gallery 2’s display devoted to “Power, Patronage and Politics” in the Renaissance, this is the foundational power portrait in European art. There’s a terrific sense of being ...

The Renaissance analog to modern digital methods of remembrance was the portrait. I’d like to share with you one that, through years of poring over 16th-century portraiture, has stayed with me ...

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