The Louvre Museum has acquired a $26 million painting from the 13th century four years after the work of art was discovered hanging on the wall of an elderly woman’s kitchen in France. The Louvre ...

Imagine walking down a street and running into a childhood friend you haven’t seen in decades. Despite the years and the changes that come with them, you know just who you’re looking at. “That’s what ...

When it comes to Old Master works, many of us think immediately of art made by men—most often Caravaggio, Rembrandt or Vermeer. But there were women artists working in the Early Renaissance all the ...

A British woman has agreed to return a Renaissance treasure to the Italian museum where it was stolen way back in 1973. The canvas, depicting a Madonna and Child scene by 16th-century painter Antonio ...

“Strong Women in Renaissance Italy,” just opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, might be a test case for truth in advertising. Exhibitions of works by women artists of the Renaissance have recently been ...

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, ...

What is Cleopatra, born in 69 B.C., doing in an exhibition titled “Strong Women in Renaissance Italy”? And why do the Queen of Sheba (10th century B.C.), Judith (sixth century B.C.), Salome and Mary ...

Artworks on loan from historically Black institutions will make the show one of the largest surveys of the era in nearly 40 years. By Zachary Small Even before joining the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...