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 ...

Cupid is the symbol of love: here is how he was represented in the art of Correggio, Caravaggio, Manfredi, and Parmigianino, between light and shadow, passion and fragility.

According to Giorgio Vasari, whose “Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects” (first published in 1550) established the genre of artistic biography, Parmigianino painted ...