ROME, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Italy has bought Antonello da Messina's "Ecce Homo" for $14.9 million, securing the rare work by the ...

Tests on Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata pieces were unable to detect brushstrokes of 15th-century master ...

The object depicted was long thought to be a stone. A close-up of "The Melun Diptych", ca. 1455, Jean Fouquet. Courtesy Steven Kangas and authors. The Melun Diptych takes its name from the Northern ...

Around 1455, a medieval French painter and miniaturist named Jean Fouquet painted a small diptych with two panels, one of which depicts St. Stephen holding a strangely shaped stone—usually interpreted ...

MADRIDMADRID — A museum in northwest Spain returned two 15th-century paintings to Polish officials on Wednesday after it was determined that they had been looted by Nazi German forces during World War ...

A 15th-century painting -- a Renaissance altar piece that turned up in a church storage closet here 50 years ago -- was escorted back to St. James Cathedral yesterday with song and pageantry after ...

For aspiring painters of the 15th century, the Italian peninsula was the place to be, its city-states offering generous patronage and the chance to encounter the work of masters past and present. This ...

The two panels of "The Melun Diptych" (c. 1455) by Jean Fouquet: "Étienne Chevalier with Saint Stephen" (left) and "Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels" (right) in an exhibition at the ...

Two “lost” paintings by the Renaissance artist Fra Angelico have been discovered hanging behind a door in a modest, two-bedroom, terraced house in Oxford. The discovery has been hailed as one of the ...

Somewhere in Cambridge at a MIT lab, a 15th-century painting depicting a Renaissance infant, once thought too damaged to display, now hangs fully restored. But this transformation didn’t come from a ...