Take a mid-17th-century painting by Michaelina Wautier, for instance, which depicts a sitter in a black silk shirt posing in front of a painting he’d acquired by Rubens.

The scope of it all is breathtaking. Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries. Through Jan. 12 at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

A recently restored painting by Renaissance master Jacopo Tintoretto is now on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The ...

Skip the flight to Italy and view Renaissance art locally in SoCal.Forest Lawn Memorial Parks and Mortuaries features full-size replicas of works by Italian masters of the Renaissance period.

Renaissance masterpieces are known for portraying figures in dramatic poses with perfect lighting that make a captured moment seem all the more epic. But what if, instead of The Creation of Adam ...

Two lost paintings by Italian Renaissance master Fra Angelico have turned up in a modest house in Oxford in a discovery hailed as one of the most exciting art finds for a generation.

Dating back more than 500 years, the Renaissance painter’s “The Man of Sorrows” is expected to attract bids in excess of $40 million when it goes up for auction in New York next year.

Art collectors at the time possessed an average of 30 paintings at home, noted Pelletier; a common party pastime during social gatherings was to guess a work’s painter, or whether the maker was ...

Art collectors at the time possessed an average of 30 paintings at home, noted Pelletier; a common party pastime during social gatherings was to guess a work’s painter, or whether the maker was ...