A beautifully restored 16th-century painting is now on public display in London. The tall, narrow altarpiece, called The Madonna and Child With Saints (1526-7), was created by Parmigianino ...
Along the way, Duccio discovers new subjects for painting: cityscapes, landscapes and interiors. The side-by-side display of ...
Masterpieces long separated by time and distance reunite in Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300–1350 at the National Gallery.
The painting was commissioned as an altarpiece for the Monastery of San Donato a Scopeto, and Leonardo was in his mid-twenties when he began work on it. Rather than render a placid biblical ...