The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired a painting by Luis de Morales (1505-86)—the Spanish Renaissance artist referred to by some early sources as “El Divino”—that recently underwent ...

With its implication that the young woman isn’t as chaste as she should be, the marriage-prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative ...

Artist Mariel Capanna works within the context of memory. Her art, whether through oil paintings or more recently frescos, ...

For more than 50 years, architectural illustrator Frank Costantino has been bringing buildings to life with his meticulously ...

Though his work was forgotten for centuries, Arcimboldo is enjoying a personal renaissance, with shows at major European museums. At the Louvre, a series of Arcimboldo paintings is among the most ...

Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to ...