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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...

Botticelli portraits and the Muse on view in Shanghai—faces that still define Renaissance glamour.

Vittore Carpaccio—perfection and decline of a Venetian Renaissance narrative painter.

Who can portray an object so vividly, even as if it were real? The ancient Greek painter Zeuxis painted grapes attracting birds; his colleague and rival Parrhas...

The back of a Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo painting? What will there be? What was revealed? Where does a work of art begin and where does it end? While canva...