The closest echo in art history for such a fiercely furrowed, lock-eyed, and, yes, trumpant glare is an out-of-the-way portrait from the paintbrush of the 17th-Century Italian Baroque artist ...

Villa Farnesina, a jewel of Renaissance architecture on the ... a deeper insight into the influence of Raphael in 17th century Rome, showing art such as Pietro da Cortona's "Galatea".

(JTA) —The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston will return a 17th-century painting in its collection to the heirs of a Jewish collector from whom the painting was stolen during the Holocaust.