Mysterious rock depicted in 15th-century painting is most likely a Stone Age tool Why medieval painter Jean Fouquet chose to depict Acheulean hand ax remains a mystery.

“I’ve known about Fouquet’s painting for years and I had always thought that the stone object looked like a Prehistoric tool,” Steven Kangas, an art history professor at Dartmouth College ...

Art History This 15th-Century Painting Might Actually Depict a Prehistoric Tool, New Research Suggests. The object depicted was long thought to be a stone.

Mysterious Stone in 15th-Century Painting Could Be a Prehistoric Tool Jean Fouquet’s “Melun Diptych” is likely the earliest artistic representation of an Acheulean hand ax.

Two paintings and a sculpture from the 15th century, looted by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945 from German Jews, were returned to the heirs of the original owners on Tuesday.

A painting by the 15th-century master Sandro Botticelli, recorded as missing since the 1980s, has been found at a home in southern Italy.. The depiction of the Virgin Mary and infant Christ was ...