click image for close-up Portrait of a Negro was drawn during the Renaissance by the renowned German artist, Albrecht Dürer. The artist probably drew the picture from life, using as a model a man ...

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

In the Legion of Honor’s Renaissance gallery, a new 400-year-old acquisition sparkles with a vibrancy belying its age. San Francisco is the new home to Lavinia Fontana’s 400-year-old painted “Portrait ...

click image for close-up During the Renaissance and for many years before, occasional African slaves were imported into Europe through trade with Arabs. The German artist Albrecht Dürer used one ...

But there were women artists working in the Early Renaissance all the way through ... Women were limited to painting portraits and still life artworks, like fruit bowls. Some women artists were ...

From portraits of the Florentine elite to depictions ... Botticelli’s “Pallas and the Centaur,” a remarkably preserved renaissance wedding chest and rare drawings of the artist that had never left ...

Las Vegas-based artist Heather Theurer is putting the beauty back into Disney by creating renaissance-style paintings ... Disney characters in her classic portrait style. “I told him I hadn ...