What would the Renaissance be without its mysteries and tantalizing gossip? In the spirit of Georgio Vasari's original Renaissance tabloid, The Lives of the Artist, we've compiled a list of the latest ...

A Renaissance painting once stolen from a nobleman’s home in southwest England and found at a bus stop in London may sell for $32 million at an art auction next month. Tiziano Vecellio’s early ...

For the second time in a month, Italy has spent millions to buy a historic painting as it moves to protect its national art ...

You can see "Renaissance on Wheels" on Saturday, April 11, at the Houston Art Car Parade, presented by Team Gillman The 39th ...

“Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be the first ever to showcase the history of a peculiar and little-known practice of ...

Simone Martini, “Christ on the Cross,” detail (1340); Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (photo Daniel Larkin/Hyperallergic) Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350, an examination of Siena’s ...

Critic Ben Davis joins Kate Brown to analyze the Met's blockbuster show on Raphael and the life and work of the Renaissance ...

A 15th-century painting -- a Renaissance altar piece that turned up in a church storage closet here 50 years ago -- was escorted back to St. James Cathedral yesterday with song and pageantry after ...

The 15-foot by 20-foot portraits loom large. The dramatic subjects call to mind the glorious Joan of Arc preparing to charge into battle or a victorious medieval warrior defeating a dragon. However, ...