Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum paid the impressive sum to prevent the rare Italian Renaissance painting from leaving the UK after more than 200 years. Fra Angelico's “The Crucifixion” was set ...

In this sense, Death of the Reprobate might be a more nuanced way to contextualize the Renaissance era. Sure, there weren’t talking monkeys, but it wasn’t all just art and sculptures.

From the classic, heavenly angel to the fallen angel, there are so many ways to make this ... With the choral music at the ...

The history of art is full of pieces inspired by religion. This makes sense of course, since religion was an integral part of ...

The auction will comprise art, sculptures, bronzes, marble, Asian antiquities, estate jewelry, sterling, Japanese samurai armor, Persian rugs and more. Clarke Auction Gallery billed its February 6 ...

Yet, for head of prints and drawings Martin Clayton, who, here, selects 158 of them (including nine which are double-sided), Renaissance drawings were, with a few exceptions, “working tools”. Often, ...

A nude figure stands with their left arm raised and their right arm behind their hip as they stand in a dynamic pose. They look right, toward a winged figure who flies from behind, looking to the ...

Turn left after you enter at 159 East Monroe. The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Learning Center (RLC) is the museum’s hub for learning and creativity, a place where you can find art making and ...

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The rough, impressionistic sculpture style, in which many of the figure’s features are suggested rather than defined, makes it difficult to make out the scourge (whip) in the angel’s hands. The angel ...