In 1454, the Augustinians in San Sepolcro wanted a grand polyptych for the high altar of their church. They commissioned hometown master Piero della Francesca for the task. It took Piero 12 years—Pope ...

A masterpiece of the Bolognese Renaissance has returned to the city of its birth for the first time in 300 years. The exhibition at Bologna’s Palazzo Fava had previously closed early due to the ...

Two panel paintings, which have hitherto remained anonymous, have been identified here as works by Giovanni Bellini, and thus give an opportunity for fresh research and providing new territory for the ...

The Musée Unterlinden in Colmar, near the German border in northeastern France, sits at the end of many an art pilgrimage to a spectacular work: the Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-16) by Matthias Grünewald ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Art Bulletin publishes leading scholarship in the English language in all aspects of art history as practiced in the academy, ...

The documentary shows the public and private aspects of Franco Buffonis life not only one of the nowadays greatest poets in Italy but an important civilrights ...

Munich, Germany’s Saeculum Obscurum write really solid hybrid death metal — think bits of Black Dahlia, Behemoth and even modern day Rotting Christ. New album Apotheosis is incredible well arranged ...

Master of the Medici Chapel Polyptych refers to an artist about whom little is known. Their name represents an artwork attributed stylistically to them. Since 2012 the record price for this Master of ...

The present lot consists of eight panels, each of which measures 35.4 x 27.6 inches (90 x 70 cm.) Together, the panels create one large-scale panorama. Shot in 2002 on the coastline of northern ...

Walter Niedermayr (Italian, b. 1952) is an architectural photographer who is known for detached photographs of alpine environments. Niedermayr was born in Bolzano, Italy, and originally trained in a ...

A masterpiece of the Bolognese Renaissance has returned to the city of its birth for the first time in 300 years. The exhibition at Bologna’s Palazzo Fava had previously closed early due to the ...