Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among the rare-to-market works on offer during Master Drawings New York is a recently rediscovered double-sided drawing by Jacopo ...

In the year 787 the Roman Catholic Church, in the Second Council of Nicaea, laid down rules for depiction in sacred art. The objective was to teach the Christian faith to the illiterate masses through ...

Sadly, the name may not mean much. Jacopo Pontormo is a Florentine painter whose fate it was to come of age in the years after the high tide of the High Renaissance. Its vast shadow has left him ...