"Microscopic observations of the craqueleure of the painting allowed us to document the stratigraphy of the canvas and to ...

Ecce Homo, a painting by Italian Renaissance master Titian, has been found to be hiding a mysterious portrait of an unknown ...

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of Jesus, when she entered a period of repentance ...

Jan van Eyck, one of the most famous artists of the Renaissance period, and often called the pioneer of the Northern ...

While the rise of oil paint is associated with the Renaissance, paintings using poppy-seed oil have been dated as far back as seventh-century Afghanistan. But there's one key reason this paint ...