WATER MILL, N.Y. -- The look on Janine Manheim's face when a visitor stops into her garret tells much about the ancient art of iconography before she utters a word. She is bent over a 4 1/2-foot ...

Renaissance Art Associates has purchased Fine Art Limited.. In the agreement, Houston-based RAA, a wholesaler of high-quality oil paintings and museum-quality frames, assumes control of the inventory, ...

Rare 16th century tapestries commemorating a pivotal Renaissance battle—along with armor and weapons—come to the U.S. for the first time.

So the stylized iconography of medieval Christian art was out. Their time frame begins with the Renaissance, with the renewed artistic effort “to reflect the ideal beauty of the human form ...

Fine Art; Was Michelangelo a Renaissance Banksy? Scholars consider whether the master was behind a wall carving; ‘Who would ever say it is by my hand?’ Portrait of Michelangelo, 1881.

Amidst the bustle of a Toronto gallery preview of her new work, artist Shuvinai Ashoona takes a moment to recall how she started. It was about 30 years ago, at her younger sister’s house in Cape ...

Renaissance artists painted flowers as both the main subject and the backdrop for some of the most important works of art in tempera on panel, oil on canvas, and fresco.

"Frame for a Portable Reliquary Icon," 1347. Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, gift of Ruth Blumka in memory of Leopold Blumka, 1978.26. Public domain. Studies in Iconography: Themes and ...

A new show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts charts the competition among the three giants of 16th-century Venetian art. ... Art: The Renaissance’s Big Men on Canvas. 1 minute read.

What is Cleopatra, born in 69 B.C., doing in an exhibition titled “Strong Women in Renaissance Italy”? And why do the Queen of Sheba (10th century B.C.), Judith (sixth century B.C.), Salome ...

Two Art Deco Icons Poised for a Renaissance Tamara de Lempicka, a painter favored by celebrities and designers, is being revisited. Plus, a historical Miami building reopens as a hotel and private ...

“An icon – Greek ‘eikon,’ meaning images – is a two-dimensional representation of Christ, Mary, the Saints, angels, and scriptural events,” shares iconographer C… ...