"In the knowledge that works of art are not exact transcripts of reality, it would be difficult, if not impossible, conclusively to identify whether a handaxe is represented in this 15th century ...

The Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao has restored a 15th century painting of the Annunciation by Pedro Berruguete.

Call it art history meets HBO. Towering castles, knights on horseback ... One of them, a tiny prayer book from the 15th century, is leather-bound with egg-based tempera paint and touches of ...

The Melun Diptych takes its name from the Northern French town in which church the painting was originally ... had social or religious functions in 15th-century France. “The hand axe–like ...

The Melun Diptych, however, predates Gessner’s work by more than a century. To investigate their hunch, the researchers studied the shape of the stone in the painting, concluding that it was ...

Experts from London have been called in to appraise 15th-century artwork from the chapel ... the chair of the Almshouse trustees, said: "The painting was moved to keep it safe and out of harm ...

A painting by the 15th-century master Sandro Botticelli, recorded as missing since the 1980s, has been found at a home in southern Italy. The depiction of the Virgin Mary and infant Christ was ...