For aspiring painters of the 15th century ... and Flemish painters such as Van Eyck and Justus van Gent, but also with the great source of the Renaissance itself: classical art.

As proof of her African ancestry, Valdes explains that art historians believe the Black magi featured in 15th-century Flemish paintings were in fact members of the Portuguese de Sousa family ...

Zamora is one of Europe’s most extraordinary concentrations of Roman architectural style, and one of Spain’s best-kept ...

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

Belgian Neo-Impressionist artist Georges Lemmen (1865-1916) is not exactly a household name in the annals of art history. So I did a double take earlier this month when I spotted a record ...

It is a splendid show and while it is not huge — it features some 75 prints, drawings and paintings ... watercolors made late in the 16th century. Hoefnagel was borrowing the classical elements ...

The painting discovered in the attic of a barn in Connecticut nearly three decades ago was all but impossible to recognize. “It was filthy, black, dirty,” George Wachter, the chairman of ...

tapping into the longstanding interest in orientalist aesthetics evident in the “Japonisme” of the late 19th century, when a fervor for Japanese art, furniture and artifacts swept Europe.

Class distinctions in childbirth during the Renaissance were recorded. In 15th-century Florence, women were married as teenagers and often had five to ten children, depending on whether she ...