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A trailer and images have landed online for Juliet & Romeo, the musical reimagining of the William Shakespeare classic.
The work on the Santa Trinita Altarpiece (Deposition from the Cross) (1429-32) was completed ahead of a major exhibition on the Italian painter, due to open at Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi in ...
In the background ... Renaissance painter working just a bit earlier than Fontana. “People told me, ‘it’s a northern painting,'” Costamagna told AFP. “I said ‘no, it’s an Italian ...
A London exhibition is exploring the relationship between the 19th-century British designer William Morris and Islamic art ...
Today Leonardo’s painting, happily recovered in 1913 for generations of visitors after its theft in 1911, still looms large as perhaps the definitive symbol of Italian Renaissance art.
Work nears completion on Mount Wollaston Cemetery's new monumental entrance gate in Quincy. Ornamentation includes gilt ...
In the background is the only depiction of Roccati (right) from the 18th century. Manuela Callari In 1988, Paula Findlen was strolling under the Renaissance ... science in the Italian peninsula.” ...
The Mona Lisa hasn't always been a huge tourist attraction. It turns out the most famous painting in the world owes its ...
A grisly Bible story about an ancestor of Jesus may be true, jaw-dropping new evidence from a site dubbed 'Armageddon' suggests.
The Medici family was one of the most powerful Italian families during the Renaissance era, particularly when Catherine de ...
Last year, Bonnaure’s museum called on experts like Costamagna, who specializes in Florentine and Roman art, as part of an effort to study and restore its collection of Italian paintings.
As a European Renaissance art historian ... with the subject positioned between a fictive parapet and a plain black background and signed “Antonello da Messina painted me.” The 16th-century German ...