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As Lord Foster’s equestrian sculpture to honour Queen Elizabeth II gets under way, we look at the best representations of a ...

The Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao has restored a 15th century painting of the Annunciation by Pedro Berruguete. ... The influence of Flemish painting can be seen in the folds and sheen of the ...

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, ...

Enriched by 44 pictures from public and private collections in Belgium, it was the first sizable, over-all show of 15th, 16th, and 17th-Century Flemish painting ever held in the U. S. Jointly ...

Experts from London have been called in to appraise 15th-century artwork from the chapel of St John's Almshouse in Sherborne. The three-panelled altar piece, known as a triptych, was removed from ...

Art History Meet Agnès Sorel, the 15th-Century French Beauty Immortalized as Madonna. Sorel was France’s first official royal lover.

What is now Flanders in Belgium was a sprawling hub for Renaissance and Baroque art from the 15th-17th centuries. Flemish artists drew from Gothic inspiration rather than classical Greek and Roman ...

Auctions are apt to produce some bargains as well as some fantastically high prices, but the "anonymous" Madonna and Child recently knocked down at a Manhattan auction for $1,200 seemed to ...

Simple woodcuts dating back to the 15th and 16th century, many of which have been hand-coloured, hang alongside detailed engravings and larger oil paintings, and the similarities between them and ...