To plan or to improvise? This was, in broad strokes, a vital question facing 16th-century Italian painters. Florentine artists favored careful design, a process that began with disegno, drawing.

It’s taken dedicated work by feminist art historians to bring her accomplishments back into public consciousness. Like most ...

Meaning that painting, specifically figuration, is having yet another renaissance. In this case, it is figuration that extends the idea ... Her two central figures in “The Sleepers,” a couple engaged ...