The dark legend of the queen already appeared during her lifetime and lasted throughout the following ... Interestingly, the artist painted the piece after his return from Italy, where not only did he ...

To plan or to improvise? This was, in broad strokes, a vital question facing 16th-century Italian painters. Florentine artists favored careful design, a process that began with disegno, drawing.

It’s taken dedicated work by feminist art historians to bring her accomplishments back into public consciousness. Like most ...

The work had been in a private British collection for more than 200 years A museum has raised almost £4.5m to save a rare Italian renaissance painting. The Ashmolean Museum, which is part of the ...