It’s difficult to imagine a time when images of our faces were not only rare and expensive, but treated almost as sacred objects. But in 15th- and 16th-century Europe, portraits were often obscured ...

Half a millennium ago, the Protestant rebel priest Martin Luther sent out a number of small paintings as a marital announcement with political implications. He’d commissioned German painter Lucas ...

There have been a number of Renaissance portrait shows on both sides of the Atlantic over the past couple of decades, but this month Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum will mount what promises to be a stand-out ...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — As COVID-19 lockdowns ease and borders reopen, there is a gathering at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum of people from around Europe, depicted in more than 100 Renaissance portraits. The Dutch ...

The walls of the Frick Collection’s stately Gilded Age mansion in New York are lined with distinguished Old Master portraits, many depicting the kings, knights, and patrons of the Italian Renaissance.

That’s apparent in the first room of “The Renaissance Portrait,” where three male profiles from Florence, all tempera on panel, hang side by side. Each impassive face, set against a dark and neutral ...

For its nearly 90 years as a public institution, the Frick Collection in New York City did not own a single painted portrait of a woman from the Renaissance. But that has changed with its recent ...

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