BESANCON - Du 4 mai au 23 septembre 2024, le musée des beaux-arts et d’archéologie de Besançon présente une exposition ambitieuse dédiée aux peintures germaniques de la Renaissance issues des collections publiques françaises. Deux autres volets de l’exposition,...

Bernhard Strigel (German, Memmingen 1460–1528 Memmingen), Hans Roth (recto); Roth Coat of Arms (verso), 1527. Oil on linden panel, poplar frame, 42.6 × 30 cm; Frame: 49.8 × 37.6 × 5.1 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Ralph and Mary Booth...

Bernhard Strigel (German, Memmingen 1460–1528 Memmingen), Margarethe Vöhlin (recto); Vöhlin Coat of Arms (versos), 1527. Oil on linden panel, poplar frame, 43 × 30 cm; Frame: 50 × 37.6 × 5.1 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Ralph and Mary...

NEW YORK - Opening April 2, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance is the first exhibition to examine an intriguing but largely unknown tradition of Renaissance painting: portraits designed as multisided...

Lorenz Helmschmid (German, first recorded 1467, died 1516). Field Armor of Maximilian I (detail), 1480. Steel, copper alloy, and leather. Sallet: private collection, New York; all other armor elements: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Imperial Armoury...

A woman looks at works included in the sale. Courtesy Sotheby’s. LONDON .- Sotheby’s London Old Masters Evening sale on 6 December 2017 covers 400 years of art history, from the visually arresting gold-grounds of the Early Italian Renaissance to one of...

Albrecht Dürer, Emperor Maximilian I, 1518. Black and coloured chalk, heightened with white chalk. Albertina, Vienna VIENNA.- Emperor Maximilian I was a "media emperor", who spared no efforts for the representation of his person and to secure his posthumous...