Using a royal style for a young ... and even a Medici. Musician Paul Rosano, one of Sleigh’s regular muses, appears in a number of these paintings, while artist Felicity Rainnie, one of the ...

making it a center for art and learning in Europe. His reign, marked by political cunning and artistic flourishing, remains one of the most defining periods in the history of the Medici family and the ...

Leslie Primo has worked at the National Gallery and has presented on Art ... Royal Academy, National Portrait Gallery as well as the V&A. Leslie teaches at Imperial Colleague after graduating from ...

But how many of us ever pause to ask these questions: where are the works of female painters from the Dutch Renaissance ... III de Medici said that her still-lifes were just as good as those of the ...

Seeing the Leaning Tower, Pisa Cathedral, the Baptistery and Camposanto are some of the popular things to do in Pisa but ...

In 1973, ‘Madonna and Child’ by Antonio Solario was stolen. The 16th century Renaissance-era painting was taken from the civic museum in the town of Belluno in the Dolomite mountains of ...

1240-1302), the Florentine artist often called the father of Western painting. A mere two decades after his death, Dante praised him in “Purgatory.” Two centuries later, Giorgio Vasari pronoun ...

Like many women artists of earlier centuries whose work has survived, Artemisia came from a family of artists. Born in Rome ...