Discover the beauty of Renaissance paintings, where art, realism, and storytelling blend to create timeless masterpieces that continue to inspire today. Read on.

In the Renaissance, art was often sacred: as a devotional object to aid worship ... the state is capable of assisting our better angels. Neither of these ideas seems to have much credibility today,” ...

She had a pricey piece of history hiding in plain sight. An elderly woman kept what she thought was an “old religious painting” between the kitchen and sitting room of her apartment in ...

Celebrating the art of the Early Renaissance, we'll admire the works ... Donatello's happy angels celebrate the freedom and spirit of this new age. His Mary Magdalene, carved out of wood, is ...

It also inundated the National Library, the Uffizi Gallery and other historic properties housing priceless Renaissance manuscripts, sculptures and paintings ... the “mud angels,” they helped ...

As Duccio’s angel Gabriel ... the first illusionistic parapet in European art, repeated by painters through the Renaissance inviting us into their fictive worlds. If Duccio’s “Madonna ...

The exhibition at the Met, which runs through Jan. 26, examines those years leading to the onset of the plague that killed millions in Europe around 1350 as an exceptional moment at the dawn of the ...

Show at the King's Gallery features an 'enormous cache' of works by the likes of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael ...