The culprit was mimicking the pose of a Renaissance-era prince in one of the paintings at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery when the ...

But an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance,” reveals how many works of art from the period were deliberately covered ...

This painting, at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, is by the Dutch artist Dirck Jacobsz (c. 1497-1567). You might assume it’s a self-portrait, showing the artist at his easel, putting the ...

Her gaze is steely, direct and somewhat confrontational. The painting, “Portrait of a Woman” (circa 1575) by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Battista Moroni, was a centerpiece of a ...

In the Legion of Honor’s Renaissance gallery ... Beeny wanted the portrait both for its quality as a work of art and for its historical importance. “Lavinia Fontana is really the earliest ...

Have you ever seen a Renaissance portrait quite like this one by Titian ... The other, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, portrays Archinto conventionally. Only this version, at the Philadelphia ...

The vicissitudes of renaissance sculpture are strange; its life, its power, depend upon death; it is an art developed in the burying vault and cloister cemetery. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

In their naturalism and immediacy, Renaissance portraits communicate to us across time. But as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance ...