NEWARK — Students with backpacks slung over one shoulder pass riot police restraining Julio Arteaga on their way to class. Partly shrouded by the same long bangs he wears in real life, the lanky ...

reporting from WASHINGTON — When American millionaires bought paintings by Piero di Cosimo in the late 19th century, almost all the works were attributed to other Italian Renaissance artists. Piero, a ...

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The media blog Fishbowl New York is reporting that the lead paragraph of a July 25 New York Times article by Carol Vogel bears a striking similarity to the Wikipedia entry for its subject, the ...

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Just over a year from now, Madrid’s Prado Museum will celebrate its bicentenary with a blockbuster exhibition line-up. The list of featured artists reads like a whirlwind edition of "Who's Who," ...

The Italian Renaissance holds a special place in modern visual culture, especially American pop culture. The number of times re-creations of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper have popped up on the ...

And for all the admiration I have for the ways in which the painters and sculptors of fifteenth-century Italy fashioned for the self an aesthetic form that remains so striking today, it’s worth ...

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 ...

Writing on Renaissance painting in terms of cognitive science, far from reducing images to the application of faculties that were as yet unnamed, consists instead in examining how the intuition of ...

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 ...