The painting in a circular frame is titled “Portrait of a Wealthy African” and is on loan at the Walters through June, 2014. It is thought to have been painted in the 1530s by an unknown ...

Art World Historian Identifies Lost Henry VIII Portrait in Background of Social Media Photo. The work was found about 14 miles from where it was originally hung in the 1500s.

A famous portrait of King Henry VIII, long considered lost, has been found after an art historian spotted it in the background of a photo shared on social media. The painting in question was once ...

But Dürer never sold the 1500 self-portrait. A few of Nuremberg’s educated humanists saw it, but this vision of the artist as a near Messiah stayed largely out of the public eye until just ...

As this week marks the 550th anniversary of Dürer’s birth on May 21, 1471, we decided to take a look at this infamous image. Here are three facts about Self-Portrait (1500) that might change ...

Portraits are all about capturing people in a moment in time. ... After that came The Renaissance, around the 1500s, when artists like Leonardo DaVinci and Michelangelo did their thing.