She also came to understand how lucky she was to be working in Italy, in many ways the center of Renaissance painting. Before the 15th century, almost all European artwork was focused on mythical ...

A valuable painting by 15th-century master, Sandro Botticelli, has been recovered at a home in southern Italy. Italian authorities lost track of the Renaissance masterpiece – believed to be ...

This is the down-to-earth subject of a 15th ... sided), Renaissance drawings were, with a few exceptions, “working tools”. Often, they were preparatory studies for finished paintings or ...