The biblical narrative of Herod’s decision to butcher some 3,000 innocent children inspired Rennaissance and Baroque artists ...

Restoration of the biblical frescoes in the Scrovegni chapel reveals the Italian painter to be not just the maestro of human ...

Two shows—one reframing Black figuration and another questioning art as a language of resistance—make a case for empathy and ...

Fresco painting is a technique that dates back thousands of years. Although exact techniques varied from century to century, ...

Well into Advent, well into the run-up to Christmas, the lawns in town and the ranchers’ pastures that stretched across the prairie to the east were bare, uncovered in their winter poverty. Naked in ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sydney street artist Anthony Lister can be revealed as the high-profile man found not guilty of sexually or indecently assaulting ...

When the Museum of Fine Arts has sold works of art in its collection recently it’s often been with an eye toward acquiring a specific artwork: a rare canvas by Surrealist Remedios Varo ...

Giotto produced images that depicted the Life of Christ, in Padua, that established him as a household name of the Early Renaissance The first image on our timeline is from 1304-1306. The artist, ...

Italian paintings by early masters like Giotto and Piero della Francesca. In the West Wing are Italian Renaissance masterpieces by Correggio, Titian and Raphael; in the North Wing, seventeenth ...

A contemporary of Giotto, considered the father of Western painting, the artist conventionally known as Manuel Panselinos was equally influential in a totally different tradition that's largely ...

Rejecting orthogonal geometry, the museum seamlessly merges art, architecture, and public interaction, redefining the concept of a cultural institution. Its impact extends beyond aesthetics ...

A contemporary of Giotto considered the father of Western painting, the artist conventionally known as Manuel Panselinos was equally influential in a different tradition that's largely overlooked in ...