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See the Breathtaking 14th-Century Sienese Artworks That Helped Set the Italian Renaissance in Motion
A new exhibition at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is brimming with opulent religious panel paintings, ...
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Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table
Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help ...
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Museum Raises $6 Million to Keep Rare Renaissance Painting in the U.K.
A rare early masterpiece by the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico has been acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England ...
The journey of a painting from Florence to Oxford
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford announced on Thursday that the 1420s crucifixion paining by Florentine artist Fra Angelico ...
Rare renaissance painting saved for UK
A museum has raised almost £4.5m to save a rare Italian renaissance painting. The Ashmolean Museum, which is part of the ...
Oxford museum pays over €5 million to keep Renaissance painting in the UK
The Ashmolean Museum raised nearly £4.5 million (€5.4 million) to stop Fra Angelico’s The Crucifixion being sold overseas.
Allentown Art Museum exhibit blends never-before seen master works with modern art
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - The exhibit "New Conversations" at the Allentown Art Museum is a trifecta of baroque, renaissance, and ...
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Major Renaissance painting saved for the nation by Ashmolean Oxford £4.48m appeal
Ashmolean saves Fra Angelico masterpiece for the public, launching the museum as world-leading centre for the study of ...
Michelangelo’s iconic Sistine Chapel painting may depict woman with breast cancer
Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, according to researchers.
Forget photorealistic graphics, this bizarre Renaissance art game looks amazing
There are a lot of things that intrigue me about Death of the Reprobate: the story-driven gameplay, the bawdy humour ...
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Rare renaissance painting to stay in UK
A museum has raised almost £4.5m to save a rare Italian renaissance painting. The Ashmolean Museum ... which means visitors can now see how his art developed throughout his life.