One of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance is now the subject of the first comprehensive exhibition of his work ever in the United States, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ...

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence. By Emily LaBarge reviewing from London We all know what they say about ...

FLORENCE, Italy — Last Sunday evening, soon after the final visitors had trickled out of the historic Palazzo Pitti, Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi Gallery gathered with other museum ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Detail of Raphael’s Esterhazy Madonna, c 1508 - Aron Harasztos There are plenty of standout moments in this tight, enterprising ...

The enduring impact of Michelangelo’s canon of the heroic male nude, shaped over the course of his career, is hard to overstate and thrilling to watch unfold. The Albertina Museum’s rich graphic-arts ...

The British artist Sarah Biffin was born in 1784 without hands or feet. Fiercely independent, she wouldn’t allow her parents to carry her into church but instead rolled down the aisle to the family ...

Upon encountering Raphael’s “Madonna of the Meadow,” all of the museum fatigue evaporated - and with it that peculiar brain ...