The Renaissance artist’s frescoes in Orvieto, Italy’s San Brizio Chapel comprise dynamic, monumental and fiercely realistic ...

The artwork had been hiding in plain sight in the archives of a provincial museum in France, where it will eventually go on ...

The tender family portrait had been wrongly attributed to a male painter of the Northern Renaissance.

Lang Shining left a body of paintings that depict royal events and ceremonies and landscapes. He introduced the Western ...

Rome has plenty of world-class art. To see one of the best-known private galleries, head to an elegant palace with incredible ...

Like many women artists of earlier centuries whose work has survived, Artemisia came from a family of artists. Born in Rome ...

The Natural System of Colours, Wherein is displayed the regular and beautiful Order and Arrangement, Arising from the Three Premitives, Red, Blue, and Yellow, The manner in which each Colour is formed ...

Buckingham Palace paused to reflect and celebrate International Women’s Day on Instagram with royal portraits of a few important women who have remained pillars not just in their household, but for ...

This isn’t the first time that a royal portrait has doubled as an optical illusion. In December 2024, King Charles attended an Advent service at the Church of St Mary Magdalene on the ...

It remained “the defining image” of England’s shortest reigning monarch until 21st-century art historians questioned ... the shadows of a once more royal portrait of Lady Jane Grey, toned ...

The charity worked with the Courtauld Institute of Art and scientist Ian Tyers ... identical to one used on a royal portrait of King Edward VI, who, in an ultimately tragic turn, anointed his ...