When Isabella Dalla Ragione assesses a Renaissance painting, she doesn’t immediately notice the brushstrokes or the magnificence of the imagery. The first thing she notices is the fruit. On a ...

OLD ITALIAN PAINTINGS.; Portraiture Between the Fifteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Share full article. Jan. 6, 1907. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

He really put his foot in it. A clumsy tourist fell through a priceless 300-year-old painting while posing for a picture. Security footage from Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, shows the ...

The French-Italian art dealer Giuliano Ruffini, wanted by French authorities for having orchestrated a very elaborate network of forged paintings, was arrested on Friday by Italian police ...

It’s These Centuries-Old Italian Paintings. ... Italy, Spain and the United States, eight long-separated panels to reconstitute a near-complete section of the great work. ...

The FBI has returned a 2,000-year-old Italian mosaic that may have been lost for almost a century ... Art experts in Italy are currently in the process of cleaning and restoring the mosaic.

Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table ...