Each artist left behind their own distinctive mark on the painting, now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National ...

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 ...

Renaissance oil paintings can be found in museums across the world, but many of the manuscripts are so fragile they have never been displayed in public. The Royal Academy show reveals an unexpected ...

Prehistoric paintings survive on cave walls. And today, charming rocks decorated to look like turtles or ladybugs turn up under trees or on window sills. Judith W. Mann, a curator of European art at ...