A new exhibition at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is brimming with opulent religious panel paintings, ...

Mary and Saint Luke are the figures in the foreground, placed on both sides of the composition, while the two more miniature ...

In the late nineteenth century, when changing tastes made the early Renaissance newly chic, critics teased even when they praised: the British writer Vernon Lee thought Sienese painting had ...

A rare early masterpiece by the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico has been acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England ...

But there were women artists working in the Early Renaissance all the way through to the Romantic era. It’s just that their work was often overlooked or outright ignored. That’s changing ...

BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz takes a look around Botticelli Reimagined Botticelli, who lived from the 1440s to 1510, is one of the most celebrated painters of the early Renaissance period ...