A provincial museum in northern France on Friday showed off a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters of the Italian Renaissance, Lavinia Fontana, but which had for decades ...

If you live in Paris, it is a rule that you never visit the Eiffel Tower. The French art establishment used, similarly, to have little time for Claude Monet (1840-1926), regarded as a pretty but ...

A 17th-century painting by the Renaissance artist Giuseppe Cesari featuring five nude women is at the centre of a censorship row at a French school. Students also claimed the teacher made ...

Two 16th-century sculptures, jewels of French Renaissance art, have been on display since 1908 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. But thanks to modern technology and an unusual agreement ...

When “Perspective(s),” the French author’s fourth novel ... a bevy of squabbling late-Renaissance artists, led by art historian Giorgio Vasari. The ensuing whodunit unfolds in letters ...