Throughout, the Brera is gracious, ample, full of surprises and rarely crowded: an oasis of contemplative pleasure in ...

The Renaissance artist’s paintings in the Italian town’s San Brizio Chapel comprise dynamic, monumental and fiercely ...

After a four-year absence for renovations, during which the collection was transported to the brutalist Breuer building on ...

The first, vaguely historical, with padded, hoop skirts that were inspired by Piero della Francesca’s depiction of “Madonna del Parto” depicting the Virgin Mary as pregnant. The other ...

For nearly five long years, the Frick closed for a $330 million renovation, its grounds torn up, its buildings covered in scaffolding and netting, and its treasures moved a few blocks uptown to the ...

Martin Gayford: When did you first see Piero della Francesca’s The Baptism of Christ? David Hockney: At home, we had some books that must have been from just before the war, about people and places.

Many a soul has perished at what the critic Lionel Trilling called the bloody crossroads where art and politics meet – Trilling spoke of literature and politics, but for our purposes we shall broaden ...