For decades, visitors to the Frick Collection passed a magnificent staircase with an ornamental railing and giant candelabras ...

“St. Francis in the Desert,” a 1480 panel by Giovanni Bellini. MUST CREDIT: ... Art washing is as old as the pyramids, or older, and Henry Clay Frick has been scrubbed clean.

A five-year, $220-million expansions has transformed the Frick, without changing anything fundamental to the experience.

Often, they enter into a striking visual dialogue with the Frick’s historic masterpieces—for instance, the wild artichoke sculpture placed near Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert ...

Each artist left behind their own distinctive mark on the painting, now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National ...

Giovanni Bellini’s “St. Francis in Ecstasy ... The Boucher Room, so named for the artist (François Boucher) who painted the decorative panels on the walls, ...

A visitor admires Giovanni Bellini's painting "St. Francis in the Desert" (c. 1475–80) at the Frick Collection. (all photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) ...

Santi Giovanni e Paolo: ‘Madonna of Peace’, ... One of Venice’s largest churches offers almost an anthology of grandiose Venetian painting: Bellini, Lotto, Veronese.

(The painting’s mistaken name almost certainly did not originate with Giovanni Bellini, but rather with later art historians, likely seeking to distinguish between the many “Madonna With Child ...

The FT’s art critic’s guide to navigating a world-class permanent collection spanning the 14th to 19th centuries. ... 1490, by Giovanni Bellini ‘The figures seem to glow from within’: ...