Michelangelo’s famous frescoes at the Sistine Chapel were originally met with scorn, concern, and controversy.

The 15th-century painting was discovered underneath a garage bench, after which it made its way to the auction house in Banbury, England. Smith claimed the company knew that the painting was "special.

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This painting was holding a centuries-old secret that art historians were thrilled to find. A close examination of "Ecce Homo" by Renaissance artist Titian revealed another painting underneath.

A Renaissance painting found underneath a garage workbench has sold for more than half a million pounds at an auction house ...

The presses ran 24 hours a day, six days a week, for twomonths. What they produced -- The Holy Bible With Illustrations FromThe Vatican Library -- is one of the most beautifulreproductions of ...

The San Domenico Museum in Forlì, Italy, is hosting a monumental exhibition, “Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance.” The show brings together 360 works of art, borrowed from major European, American, ...

A time dominated by the likes of Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Botticelli, the Italian Renaissance was a stunning period for art. A new website from Oxford University Press’s Grove Art Online ...

In the galleries of The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I stood just feet away from a room filled with large and magnificent paintings by Aaron ...

It's the centerpiece of Renaissance art in Florence, one of the most revered works of art on Earth: Michelangelo's masterpiece, his statue of David. In 1501 the Tuscan artist was just 26 when he began ...

Jamal Lisby details his "Heavenly Bodies" starting point and how Italy's rich history remains a reference point for designers.