A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Around 1800, London-based published Samuel William Fores continued the playful tradition of composite portraiture in a series ...

This autumn seems to be the season for Old Master Drawings exhibitions! The Fondation Custodia in Paris opened a new show ...

N orthern Renaissance portraits contain secret messages from the artist and the sitter. Portraiture was on the rise during the Northern Renaissance due to the changing art market. This allowed ...