Discover the beauty of Renaissance paintings, where art, realism, and storytelling blend to create timeless masterpieces that continue to inspire today. Read on.

In front of it, Fra Angelico’s altar panels from San Domenico ... their temporary display downstairs in Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 (until 22 June). Giovanni Bellini’s Doge Loredan ...

the jewel-like Niccoline Chapel adorned with frescoes by Fra Angelico; and the Raphael apartments, or stanze, in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican, with the artist's The School of Athens their ...

Originally known as the Cappella Maggiore (the “greater chapel,” as Pope Sixtus had another smaller chapel also for his use; that one was painted by Fra Angelico), the chapel was decorated ...

To celebrate its 200th anniversary, London’s National Gallery has recently revamped its Sainsbury Wing, a transformation that has taken three years and $113 million.

A virgin birth—true story or fantastical allegory? Whatever your beliefs, you can’t deny that an immaculate conception is a terrific tale! The Annunciation is a key event in the Christian biblical ...

Founded in 1889 by Jeanne Lanvin, Lanvin is widely celebrated as the oldest surviving French fashion house still in operation ...

The blow-job connotation comingles with associations of old Renaissance pictures in which the word of God comes down through a dove as a bunch of proto-language scribbles, like a Fra Angelico painting ...

The U.K. government has temporarily barred the export of a $13.5 million Botticelli, hoping to save the rare early work for ...