Six centuries ago, Italy boasted hundreds of varieties ... She realized that paintings were not just art, they were evidence, and not only evidence of fruit from hundreds of years ago.

Thought to be lost to history for centuries, a newly attributed Andrea Mantegna painting depicting Jesus ... of ecclesiastical cultural heritage in Italy, sparking the attention of Stefano De ...

Italy. The work consists of tempera painting, ink and gold on parchment. “We appreciate the care that the Cleveland Museum of Art has taken to preserve this manuscript over many years and their ...

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 ...