The Louvre Museum has acquired a $26 million painting from the 13th century four years after the work of art was discovered hanging on the wall of an elderly woman’s kitchen in France. The Louvre ...

When it comes to Old Master works, many of us think immediately of art made by men—most often Caravaggio, Rembrandt or Vermeer. But there were women artists working in the Early Renaissance all the ...

A British woman has agreed to return a Renaissance treasure to the Italian museum where it was stolen way back in 1973. The canvas, depicting a Madonna and Child scene by 16th-century painter Antonio ...

It’s difficult to imagine a time when images of our faces were not only rare and expensive, but treated almost as sacred objects. But in 15th- and 16th-century Europe, portraits were often obscured ...

"Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America," New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1987, fig. 20. "The Art of Archibald J. Motley, Jr.," Chicago, IL: Chicago ...