Leonardo da Vinci, the creator of the famous Mona Lisa, was an Italian painter and sculptor. This raises the question of why ...

Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may have cracked one using chemistry and physics. Around the turn of the 15th century in Italy ...

Researchers think old masters like Sandro Botticelli, who painted Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, may have mixed egg into their oil paints to alter certain qualities. Fine Art Images / Heritage ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 749-750 (Sale info: TO BE AUCTIONED). Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Collection of Original Italian Oil Paintings, Marble Statuary, and Other Works ...

Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 828 (Sale info: TO BE AUCTIONED). Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Collection of Original Italian Oil Paintings, Marble Statuary, and Other Works of ...

An exhibition centered on the “Master of the Blue Jeans” is opening in Paris this month—and the work on display is not that of Levi Strauss, founder of the eponymous clothing company, but rather a ...