In my next column, I’ll explore how the Italian painters of the 14th and 15th centuries continued to work out this visual and geometrical challenge, leading to the “discovery” of perspective.

Just before cameras transformed the Italian countryside into a 3-D postcard, painters from the rest of Europe worked to capture the magic of the landscape. Without the benefits of photography ...

Mr. W. R. Thayer St reviews below The North Italian Painters of the Renaissance," by B. Berenson '87, the well-known writer of history and criticism of Italian paintings.

An Italian culture minister is being investigated over a missing 17th century painting that has been found in his possession, police have said.

Nearly four months ago, the art world was struck with the news of a 17-painting heist from Verona’s Castelvecchio Museum. Eleven masterpieces were taken — including work by Italian Renaissance ...

Police said the artist was unknown but is reminiscent of Francesco Solimena and Bernardo Cavallino, two other 17th century Italian painters.

He was the Billy the Kid of great Italian painters, a lethal fugitive from justice for the last 4 years of his life, creating great art and making new enemies wherever he went.

An art exhibition by Chinese and Italian painters took place in Bologna, Italy, over the weekend. The exhibition is called "High Mountain and Flowing Water".

In my last column, I wrote about the 14-century Italian painter Giotto and the challenges he faced in depicting objects as viewers see them, rather than as they really are. In the late medieval per… ...