Self-taught oil painter Marcus Robins has been honing his craft for three years and hopes his work sparks dialogue and ...

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 ...

Martino is the artist-in-residence at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and a professor at Northeastern University. He and his collaborator Luca Stornaiuolo, a researcher at the Polytechnic University of ...

No one looks at a 15th-century Italian painting and thinks, SpongeBob SquarePants! No one except Plainfield artist Emilia Olson, that is. Her takeoff on Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” — ...

A Renaissance painting once stolen from a nobleman’s home in southwest England and found at a bus stop in London may sell for $32 million at an art auction next month. Tiziano Vecellio’s early ...

A tribute to Renaissance art on Christmas Day celebrates the rebirth of light, beauty, and human dignity. Just as Christmas symbolizes birth and hope, the Renaissance represents a new cultural and ...

Prehistoric paintings survive on cave walls. And today, charming rocks decorated to look like turtles or ladybugs turn up under trees or on window sills. Judith W. Mann, a curator of European art at ...

A Renaissance painting found underneath a garage workbench has sold for more than half a million pounds at an auction house in Banbury. In a 15-minute bidding battle at JS Fine Art auctioneers, a ...

First you notice John the Baptist’s pale face gazing longingly toward heaven. As you look further up the canvas, you see a shadowy, muscular figure holding a sword to the saint’s neck. Full of drama ...