The Northern Renaissance painter's innovative techniques altered the course of art history. An upcoming exhibition in London ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

“Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance,” a new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be the first ever to showcase the history of a peculiar and little-known practice of ...

A 15th century portrait of a young man by Sandro Botticelli —one of maybe a dozen portraits in existence by the early Renaissance artist widely known for painting Primavera and Birth of Venus—will be ...

An enigmatic painting from Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli will go on auction next year and art watchers will be seeing if it fetches more than its eye-watering $80 million estimate, despite the ...

Sandro Botticelli, "Portrait of a young man holding a roundel," tempera on poplar panel, 23 by 15 ½ inches. (all images courtesy of Sotheby's) What is the price of beauty? According to Sotheby's, it's ...