Renaissance art
Siena's spectacular cathedral floor has been temporarily uncovered
Visitors to the Italian city have a rare chance to glimpse the inlaid marble floor, begun in the 14th century
For just the third time this century, a Fra Angelico work heads to auction
Rediscovered panel painting comes to Christie’s evening sale in London next month with an estimate of £4m-£6m
Michelangelo's David blocked from Scottish ad campaign
Glasgow's Barolo Restaurant will run posters with the sculpture visible only from the waist up after artwork with the masterpiece in full-view was rejected
Woman's best friend too: Dublin show on trailblazing Renaissance painter Lavinia Fontana puts dogs centre stage
Numerous spaniels featured in the National Gallery of Ireland exhibition are likened to Paris Hilton's chihuahuas by show's curator
Amid scandal, Florida Department of Education says Michelangelo's David has 'artistic and historical value'
Though the Sunshine State's agencies have adopted extreme views on other topics, its Department of Education rebuffed claims that "David" is pornographic
‘I’m proud of my tiny shiny penis’: Michelangelo’s cancelled David bares all on Saturday Night Live
A lesson from the Tudors in art’s legitimising power
The material splendour of the Tudors is captured in a volume showing how it was wielded to reinforce monarchy’s authority
Inside the 'biggest art fraud in history': what the alleged mass forgery tells us about the market for First Nations art in Canada
Plus worryingly low artists’ pay in the UK and an Ugly Duchess
Acquisitions round up: Art Institute of Chicago acquires Magdalena Abakanowicz's horsehair wall hangings
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
First major show of Sandro Botticelli’s drawings to include five newly attributed works
Exhibition at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor will bring together 27 drawings and reunite Uffizi’s Adoration of the Magi with its preparatory designs for the first time
The Big Review: Vittore Carpaccio at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC ★★★★☆
The painter’s masterpieces show that his influences stretched beyond Venice and at times touch on the miraculous.
New York's Frick Collection acquires its first-ever Renaissance portrait of a woman
According to the museum, the portrait by Giovanni Battista Moroni is “the most significant Italian Renaissance painting” it has acquired in more than half a century
Nativity scene by Renaissance master saved from leaving the UK
Rare work by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi, valued at £277,990, will go on show at Ulster Museum
First major Donatello exhibition to come to UK after rave reviews in Italy
The Victoria and Albert Museum show next year will explore the life and legacy of the “driving force behind the Italian Renaissance”
A glorious show of Tudor royal splendour to open at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
Masterpieces amassed in Renaissance England are brought together in an exhibition freed from expectations to tell a “hallowed national narrative”
From a Niki de Saint Phalle fountain to a splashy David Hockney print: our pick of the highlights from September's sales
Plus, a Pre-Raphaelite treasure, an iconic James Bond poster and a set of nine intricately inlaid panels
Stolen by the Nazis and a talking point in Cold War Poland: the strange journey of Leonardo da Vinci's Lady with an Ermine
Eden Collinsworth tells a breathless, flowery tale of the celebrated Cecilia Gallerani portrait
NFT twist is latest development in saga of contested ‘Leonardo’ painting hidden in a Swiss vault
A painting of a princess possibly by the Old Master has been sold digitally—but questions remain over its provenance, the inherent value of non-fungible tokens and who owns what
Acquisitions round-up: Gordon Parks photographs head to the 'mecca of Black education' Howard University in Washington, DC
Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide
Only known work by female Old Master artist Caterina Angela Pierozzi unveiled in London
For centuries, it was thought that none of her paintings survived—now a new discovery is on show at Colnaghi Gallery
Forgotten chapter of Renaissance and Baroque painting to be set in stone
An exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum will look at how artists incorporated the unique properties of polished stone into their paintings
A flying visitation: presence of life-size insect in Dürer painting puzzles experts
Early copy of The Feast of the Rose Garlands in National Gallery exhibition includes a fly on the lap of the Virgin
Object lessons: from a Renaissance drawing unseen for a century to a work by Mali’s pre-eminent photographer
Our pick of the highlights from coming fairs and auctions
Beyond Artemisia: Italy’s forgotten women artists revealed in new book
This well-researched volume confirms that female artists were far more numerous—and talented—than previously recorded
First major Donatello exhibition in nearly 40 years to open in Florence
The Renaissance master is "more important than Giotto, Raphael or Caravaggio" say the curators of the show, which will travel to Berlin and London
All glitz and glamour? Hollywood’s new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Plus, the rise of private museums and Renaissance portraits at the Rijksmuseum
No fillers in weighty show of Renaissance portraits
A major exhibition that includes nearly 90 paintings at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum boasts a series of blockbuster-calibre loans
The story of how a Renaissance papal librarian took up residence in New England is uncovered in this book
The authors explain who Tommaso Inghirami was and how the first painting by Raphael came to the US
Order, imagination and technology at the new Ringling Museum
After rebuilding work lasting ten years and costing $20 million, the Ringling Museum has been reopened to the public.