Holy Family, known as the Doni Tondo

On March 15, 1523 the Venetian humanist Girolamo Negri wrote to his friend, the art collector and writer Marcantonio Michiel, about the visit of the new Pope Adrian VI to the Belvedere gardens in Rome....

The nineteenth-century French press was decisively shaped by censorship....

~~Contemporary artists often help us understand how their work is made by revealing their creative process. But this was not always the case, and it can be difficult to reconstruct how a painting was made centuries ago by just looking at it. Other painters could always use their experience to speculate, but it is only with the advent of...