If you think the selfie was born as a direct result of the cellphone, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” painted just over 500 years ago by Francesco Mazzola, the Italian artist commonly ...
The 16th-century portrait, once attributed to Bronzino ... She also painted mythological scenes and self-portraits, and is the first-known woman painter to depict female nudes.
The town of Mdina played a huge role in Maltese history. Today, it's hugely popular for its walled Baroque splendor.
A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo ...
The portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, more exactly the portrait of one Lisa Gherardini, was executed by fits and ...
The author looks at the defining features and similarities of work by Hieronymus Bosch, Max Beckmann and William Kentridge ...
Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two ...
When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the 1970s, one of his favourite pastimes was to rummage through his ...
The two married in 1967 and lived in the 16th-century Villa Medici for a decade ... “It started when I was in Rome because Balthus had made a self-portrait as a king of cats,” Setsuko says ...
About the book: “The Marriage Portrait” by Maggie O’Farrell is a richly atmospheric historical novel that depicts the life of a young Italian princess in the 16th century, exploring her ...
The Merchant of Venice is a complicated play. Apart from its interweaving storylines, its genre defies classification: in its first quarto of 1600, the play is described as an “excellent history” and ...