To celebrate the artist’s enduring legacy, we surveyed 10 of Raphael’s most popular paintings (determined ... the very summa of visuality in Italian Renaissance painting, Raphael’s ...

From the most to least famous, these are ten great paintings dedicated to ancient Greek myths or containing references to them. 1. The Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli, the great Italian painter of ...

The world knew Jimmy Carter as a president and humanitarian, but he also was a woodworker, painter and poet, creating a body ...

And the fact that the paintings are 700 years old adds to their verisimilitude. The exhibition at the Met, which runs through Jan. 26, examines those years leading to the onset of the plague that ...

It only lasted a few hours. It was really a rout. But the Battle of Pavia, which changed the balance of power in Europe, was an event of such sweeping action and teeming complexity that perhaps ...

The authors use the writing of the great Renaissance chronicler Giorgio ... Put into context, fewer than 10 paintings have been firmly attributed to Giorgione. The Alte Pinakothek may well have ...

Carter built four ladder-back chairs out of hickory in 1983, and Sotheby’s auctioned them for $21,000 each at the time, the first of many sales of Carter paintings and furniture that raised ...

The show rightly avoids the bias toward Florence in early Renaissance narratives that ... the demon Beelzebub with a hammer, from the paintings of the Mystical Marriage of St.

If your New Year’s resolutions include seeing more art, be it for distraction or engagement, look no further than Chicago’s ...

Carter built four ladder-back chairs out of hickory in 1983, and Sotheby’s auctioned them for $21,000 each at the time, the first of many sales of Carter paintings ... to a 4 in 10 chance ...