The discovery adds to evidence that preparatory drawings were common practice for Venetian artists as well as for their ...
The hotel, a Grade II listed property inspired by the 16th-century Italian Renaissance, is surrounded by eight acres of landscaped grounds. It features an outdoor heated pool, meeting spaces and ...
A 16th-century painting by Renaissance artist Moretto was damaged after a visitor to a museum in the Italian city of Brescia ...
The death of Marianne Faithfull last week at the age of 78 has got me thinking again about female beauty. The obituaries were ...
An exhibition in Rome is dedicated to the Farnese art collection and the influence of Pope Paul III Farnese on the Eternal ...
Often gifted as personalised love tokens, 'belle donne', or 'beautiful women' plates, represent idealised 16th-century fantasies of beauty ... Needless to say, the patriarchal society of Renaissance ...
Today, the area is filled with Renaissance-era synagogues and the Museo Ebraico, which chronicles and displays Jewish Italian life beginning in the 16th century. Northeast of Venice’s Cannaregio ...
A new exhibition at Buckingham Palace features over 150 Renaissance drawings by masters like Raphael, Michelangelo, and ...
A rare portrait by Bernardino de’ Conti, a peer of Leonardo da Vinci, set a record at Sotheby's Master Paintings auction.