Jan van Eyck, one of the most famous artists of the Renaissance period, and often called the pioneer of the Northern ...

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Deborah W. Parker, University of Virginia “Just Because I am a Librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.” With this breezy pronouncement, Belle da Costa Greene handily differentiated herself ...

27 x 10 x 14 cm. (10.6 x 3.9 x 5.5 in.) ...

A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo ...

Leonardo da Vinci's famed "Mona Lisa" portrait is getting a new home at Paris' Louvre while the museum undergoes renovations.

Residents in Renaissance Park held a gathering Sunday night for a Raleigh police officer in critical condition after a shooting days earlier that killed two men in the neighborhood. Neighbors and ...

When the young artist hesitantly flipped her notepad to the camera, her mom assured her that she had never looked better and ...

Art research firm, LMI Group International, used 20 experts to investigate the painting's authenticity A painting bought for ...

I remember when, as a child, I fought my way to the front of a queue of sweaty tourists in the Louvre, only to be pulled ...

55.9 x 41.6 cm. (22 x 16.4 in.) ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in ...