Venice is insanely beautiful. Every step will have you wanting to take out your camera and start snapping. Having visited Venice several times, I would recommend taking the time to just walk through ...

Visit this underrated coastal city near Mount Etna for stunning black sand beaches, vibrant festivals, and authentic Italian ...

Dürer painted his most sensual portrait here, “Venetian Woman” (1505), expensive décolleté robe, jewels and corkscrew curls so precise that Bellini asked what kind of brush he used.

Each artist left behind their own distinctive mark on the painting, now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National ...

3. ‘St Mark Preaching in Alexandria’ (1504-7) by Gentile and Giovanni Bellini ...

A visitor admires Giovanni Bellini's painting "St. Francis in the Desert" (c. 1475–80) at the Frick Collection. (all photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) ...

Toledo was once home to Europe’s most powerful king, Charles V, and is papered with the vividly spiritual paintings of the city’s most famous artist, El Greco.

Giovanni Bellini’s ‘St. Francis in Ecstasy’ is a minimal painting with soft, serene elements and colours. It shows the St. Francis of Assisi in a moment of divine revelation and he can be ...

Jan van Eyck, one of the most famous artists of the Renaissance period, and often called the pioneer of the Northern Renaissance was an exceptional painter who served under a King and a Duke in ...

The Western Center for the Conservation of Fine Arts (WCCFA) has been treating paintings by some of the most prolific artists for the past 40 years. They recently began treating what's believed to be ...