Portraits reflected the values of Renaissance humanism alongside economic ... and further influences of Classical style are the use of a side profile to reflect the portrait style of Roman coins.

In the past month alone, shadowy portraits have been found hidden in ... of a mustachioed man holding a quill beneath the Italian Renaissance master Titian's painting Ecce Homo, 1570-75.

Las Vegas-based artist Heather Theurer is putting the beauty back into Disney by creating renaissance-style paintings of female characters. “I’d grown up loving Disney films, and I’d always ...