Venice used new art commissions to help its citizens understand the changing nature of power and quell public anxiety during ...

The exhibition also features paintings, sculptures and books from art collector Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle. The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb – the Ghent Altarpiece – is arguably the most important ...

Partly damaged by the catastrophic 1966 flood of the Arno, Michelangelo's Florence tombstone just got a $118,000 restoration.

OLD TESTAMENT & ART: Pieter Lastman’s 1614 painting captures ... Abram reciprocates and builds an altar there. It is the first of several commitments by God to give him a land.

an architectural marvel that is home to Van Eyck's "Ghent Altarpiece," one of the world's most celebrated and venerated artworks. This Gothic landmark draws art aficionados and history buffs alike ...

His “Tower of Babel” dates from 1563. Its best-known version is in the Vienna Art Museum. As with most of Brueghel’s paintings, the scenes are densely populated. That might not seem so at ...

thanks to to the loan of the main altarpiece, The Assumption, by the Art Institute of Chicago which has owned it since 1906. In The Assumption, the Virgin Mary ascends to heaven on a crescent moon ...

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