The Nativity ... exceptionally rare surviving work by the Italian artist – and the only one in the UK. The painting, which is also the first High Renaissance painting to enter a public ...

Nativity imagery dominated Renaissance art. This first living Nativity scene – which was famously depicted by Italian Renaissance painter Giotto di Bondone in the Arena Chapel of Padua ...

a decade after he created the painting, and both the work and the artist faded into obscurity despite his prominence and high regard during the Italian Renaissance. “Mystic Nativity” was ...

Time and overly enthusiastic cleaning had dealt enough damage to Piero Della Francesca's masterful nativity painting ... in the ultimate Renaissance faux pas, the work was wrongly framed as ...

A rare painting of the Nativity, dating back more than 500 years and created by a celebrated Italian artist ... of what became known as the High Renaissance around the early 1500s.

Along a scenic route in the Piedmont and Lombardy regions, nine sanctuaries known as the Sacri Monti house a trove of Renaissance and Baroque art ... the Nativity of Mary, at the Sacro Monte ...

If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity. What were the ...

It delves into the Royal Collection's seemingly "bottomless pit of art treasures" and raids its extraordinary holdings of works on paper from the Italian Renaissance, most of them collected by ...

The Nativity, by Baldassare Peruzzi, dates back to 1515 and has been described as an exceptionally rare surviving work by the Italian artist – and the only one in the UK. The painting, which is also ...