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

Art World Teachers Walked Out of a School in France After a Renaissance Art Lesson Led to Student Accusations. The 17th-century painting in question, 'Diana and Actaeon,' is located in the Louvre.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

At the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, a set of richly detailed and thoughtfully presented 16th-century weavings will transport viewers to a distant time and place.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...