In the catalog for “Virtue and Beauty,” the show of portraits of Renaissance women on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington through Jan. 6, art historian Joanna Woods-Marsden poses a ...
Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance explores the paintings concealed behind mirrors, in folded diptychs, and on the backs of other works. Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on ...
NEW YORK – An enigmatic painting from Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli will go on auction next year and art watchers will be seeing if it fetches more than its eye-watering $80 million estimate, ...
Half a millennium ago, the Protestant rebel priest Martin Luther sent out a number of small paintings as a marital announcement with political implications. He’d commissioned German painter Lucas ...
JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL. 1480s Wine and Worship on Gaza’s Hill: A Forgotten Chapter of Jewish Life. In the late ...
“Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be the first ever to showcase the history of a peculiar and little-known practice of ...
"Memling’s Portraits," Oct. 12-Dec. 31, 2005, at the Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, New York, N.Y. 10021 If there was ever a museum that doesn’t need to hold loan exhibitions, it’s the Frick ...
Editor’s Note: Untold Art History investigates lesser-known stories in art, spotlighting unsung and pioneering artists you should know, as well as uncovering new insights into influential artworks ...
Sandro Botticelli's 15th-century painting called "Young Man Holding a Roundel" is displayed at Sotheby's on Sept. 23, 2020, in New York. The painting will go on auction next year and art watchers will ...