Her image is everywhere from T-shirts to coffee mugs, but it was only recently that the true identity of the woman in the ...

since the significance of melancholy was up for debate in the Renaissance. The image is chock full of objects that may serve as symbols—a balance, an hourglass, a sphere, and calipers ...

Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings ...

Each artist left behind their own distinctive mark on the painting, now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National ...

Sham marriages, "degenerate" art locked away in cabinets ... and lapis- and saffron-saturated plaster usually associated with Renaissance Italy. The artistic marvels of the age are also the ...

Nelli’s status as a nun enabled her to pursue art at a time when women were all but banned from the profession. According to Artsy’s Karen Chernick, Renaissance nunneries “extracted women ...

William Henry Johnson, “Street Life, Harlem,” circa 1939-1940, from “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.” In Johnson’s buoyant painting a dapper Harlem couple steps out ...