If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum ... a mythological or religious painting, a tapestry or fresco, the answer is almost always that the works were ...

The Sistine Chapel has witnessed every papal election since 1492 with only five exceptions, and it is preparing to once again ...

D.C., Ginevra de’ Benci was a celebrated beauty of the Italian Renaissance. Her likeness—the only da Vinci painting on permanent view in the Americas—was created with oil paints on a flat ...

During the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling ... of Art on March 6—the 550th birthday of the iconic Italian Renaissance master. In a statement, exhibition curator and ...