To a visitor, all the objects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art can seem valuable through their age and merit of inclusion in this major arts institution. Yet what we value today is not necessarily ...

In this era of blockbuster shows, the permanent collections of the Metropolitan frequently become what we walk past on the way out of the latest event, so it’s good to be reminded of how remarkable ...

A previously unknown 1517 drawing by the Northern Renaissance master Hans Baldung Grien has surfaced after 500 years and is headed to auction. Hans Baldung Grien, Portrait of Susanna Pfeffinger ...

On the Money: 'The Misers' (1548-51) by Marinus van Reymerswaele Can’t say there are too many mornings I wake up and feel complete empathy for Henry VIII, but it turns out I was wrong. You know that ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The glowing intensity of Albrecht Dürer’s painting shows why he was considered the most influential artist of the ...

Athens, Ga. – The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will host John Nolan and Trinita Kennedy as they address different aspects of the current exhibit “A Divine Light: Northern ...

The authors of these five volumes from Laurence King have, over the past three years, written books that bear essentially the same titles as five volumes in the Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Random House ...

The Northern Renaissance: Dürer to Holbein at Buckinham Palace's Queen's Gallery is something of a jumble, but proves that the Renaissance wasn't exclusive to the Italian peninsula, writes Alastair ...

When we think of the Renaissance we usually think of Italy, where it began. But there was an ‘Other Renaissance’ which took place in northern Europe. This is often overlooked, even though it would ...

We tend to think of the Renaissance as an Italian phenomenon, the rebirth, after a thousand years or so, of the aesthetic achievements and intellectual traditions of the ancient Romans, whose ...

This isn’t to say that Italian Renaissance artists such as Leonardo, or Giovanni Bellini, aren’t enamoured by the finely wrought textures of the visible world. They are. But whereas our attention ...