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In 1534, the 59-year-old Michelangelo (1475-1564) left Florence for Rome, where he worked for nearly 30 years, painting "The Last Judgment" and other ...

During the Renaissance, drawings became an integral part of the large number of paintings and murals associated with that period. Sandro Botticelli (c. 1445-151...

Francesco Pesellino (1422-1457) was born in an artistic family in Florence, Italy. His maternal grandfather and father were both professional painters. He was m...

Were there any female artists before the 19th century? In China, most women, whether it is Duan Sheng in the Yuan Dynasty or Gu Hengbo in the late Ming Dynasty,...

When we imagine the characters at Henry VIII's court, the work of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543) almost always comes to mind. Just like the works of...

How have Western artists discovered and depicted the ideal body since the Renaissance? Michelangelo was the first to express the movement of muscles. Raphael, D...

Albrecht Dürer's artwork is both traditional and modern. The Renaissance printmaker and oil painter was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1471 and died there in...

Nowhere in art has the male gaze been more exemplified than in the Renaissance nude, a bohemian style that was especially adept at by the likes of Titian and Br...

On the afternoon of April 27, the much-anticipated "Botticelli and the Renaissance" opened at Shanghai Dongyi Art Museum, presenting ten works by the ...

"Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice," currently on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is the painter...