Ashmolean director Dr Xa Sturgis described the painting as "both very calm, but also very charged" Museum staff have shared the history of a rare Italian renaissance painting they managed to save ...

Sitting in Trafalgar Square, London's National Gallery features a labyrinth ... paintings in the Western European tradition from the 13th to early 20th centuries, including Italian Renaissance ...

And the fact that the paintings are 700 years old adds to their verisimilitude. The exhibition at the Met, which runs through Jan. 26, examines those years leading to the onset of the plague that ...