The most expensive Old Master painting ... art dealing." The figure of Minerva is illuminated by a pattern of light in the shape of a diamond that encloses the center of the painting.

In the lower register of Raphael’s The Transfiguration– the famous final painting by the High Renaissance master, painted precisely 500 years ago – a figure cut from the same cloth (thought ...

Here we re-tell the Christmas story in 10 of the most beautiful Old Master paintings ... the Florentine Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli to paint the archangel Gabriel visiting the Virgin ...