A Renaissance painting found underneath a garage workbench has sold for more than half a million pounds at an auction house in Banbury. In a 15-minute bidding battle at JS Fine Art auctioneers, a ...

The Last Judgement, on the altar wall, is in one-third scale The paintings are printed on fabric All 34 frescos have been reproduced WARWICK – If you've ever wanted to see Michelangelo's famed ...

The question imposes itself irresistibly: Why are the same names always mentioned—Dürer, Grünewald—and not Cranach, Altdorfer, Stefan Lochner, Holbein? Why always Fra Angelico and not Filippo Lippi?

To “rehabilitate” an artist who has been a favorite of plain people for four centuries is not so silly as it may sound. That is what the Oxford University Press has undertaken to do for Raphael. Its ...

See the dude in the top left corner of the top of the painting above (Raphael's famous Madonna della Rosa)? That's St. Joseph lurking over the Madonna, the Child, and St. John. And yes, he does seem ...

Last week the Soviets locked the door on some 920,000 art objects (from old masters to old coins and trinkets) carted off from Berlin* and Dresden museums since 1945. After months of temporizing, ...

The Renaissance, a transformative cultural and intellectual movement spanning from the 14th to the 17th century in Europe, witnessed a resurgence of art, science, and humanism. It marked a departure ...

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. The team ...

The Sistine Madonna, also called the Madonna di San Sisto, is an oil painting by the Italian artist Raphael. The painting was commissioned in 1512 by Pope Julius II for the church of San Sisto, ...

Raphael Sanzio, one of the most illustrious painters of the Italian Renaissance, left an indelible mark on the world of art. Born in Urbino in 1483, Raphael quickly rose to prominence due to his ...