The British Museum is fighting to acquire the Tudor Heart, a gold pendant from the early 16th century. The national treasure ...

The Renaissance, often hailed as one of the most transformative periods in human history, gave rise to an unparalleled ...

Windsor Castle is showcasing rare Jane Austen editions, including a copy of Pride and Prejudice once read aloud by Prince ...

Opened in May, the Fenix museum brings interactive installations and a showstopping, tornado-like rooftop structure to ...

Have you ever wondered what famous historical figures really looked like? We decided to compare their appearances through the ...

The European paintings department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has just acquired a major German Renaissance painting by Hans Schaufelein (ca. 1482-ca. 1589), a pupil of Albrecht Dürer whose works ...

Hans Holbein the Younger was known to have painted three portraits of the Dutch humanist philosopher and theologian Desiderius Erasmus in 1523, when they were both living in the Swiss city of Basel.

A MOST interesting exhibition has recently been held at the National Portrait Gallery to mark the rediscovery of Holbein's original cartoon for his famous portrait group, "Henry VIII and the Barber ...

With work from 1875 to 1925 alongside medieval works, this exhibition considers how modern Nordic and northern European artists such as Käthe Kollwitz and Edvard Munch were influenced by the gothic ...

Portrait Anne of Cleves Queen of England by Hans Holbein the Younger 1539 Original edition from my own archives Source : Figaro Illustre 1896 Anne of Cleves (German: Anna von Kleve; 1515 – 16 July ...

Tudor art has a poor reputation. Compared to the works of the Northern and Italian Renaissance, 16th-century English paintings look provincial. Tudor patrons weren’t generally prepared to pay much for ...