Archaeologists were working on “La Place,” a medieval northern city gate that was demolished in the 1700s, when they found a ...

An archaeological dig in eastern France revealed the remnants of a five-foot-high equestrian statue that likely overlooked a ...

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 ...

Florentine and Roman art specialist Philippe Costamagna saw the painting in storage and insisted to Agence France-Presse, "it's an Italian painting, Bolognese in spirit from A to Z. Everything is ...

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, ...

The French art establishment used, similarly, to have little time for Claude Monet (1840-1926), regarded as a pretty but simplistic painter for American billionaires and Japanese tourists.

Lavinia Fontana, who lived from 1552-1614, is seen as one of the very first women to make a career out of painting in Western art, and an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance ...

But how did Renaissance art lead to the mathematics that govern modern ... Its characters include a French prisoner of war and two mathematicians struck down in their prime—one by illness and ...

French President Emmanuel Macron laid out an ambitious plan for a "reimagined, restored and expanded" Louvre. An art critic says Macron is aiming for another success after restoration of Notre Dame.

A provincial museum in northern France on Friday, March 21, showed off a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters of the Italian Renaissance, Lavinia Fontana, but which had for ...