“Are not all portraits a fiction?” asks the opening wall text of “The Renaissance Portrait From Donatello to Bellini.” This Antonio del Pollaiuolo "Portrait of a Lady." “Are not all portraits a ...

Going through “The Renaissance Portrait: From Donatello to Bellini,” a survey of fifteenth-century Italian paintings, sculptures, and drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, visitors are likely to ...

If you were to catalog just the subjects featured in the Metropolitan’s “The Renaissance Portrait: From Donatello to Bellini,” a nicely timed Christmas blockbuster that’s newly arrived from Berlin’s ...

Sandro Botticelli’s “Portrait of a Lady at a Window” (c. 1470 – 75),included in The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini at the Metropolitan Museum,is a beautiful, philosophically complex ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. He is at once thoughtful and perturbed – brow furrowed, gaze downcast, lips squeezed into a slim frown. His puckered ...

Donatello, Pazzi Madonna, marble, courtesy of Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Antje Voigt, Berlin) There’s a case to be made for Donato di ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Reimagined for the sleek, glossy underground hangar of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Sainsbury Gallery, the ...

Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello made a name for himself by creating realistic pieces of art that perfectly captured the human form. With the help of experts, explore the lifestyle and work of ...

We can’t get enough of Hillary White’s mashups of classic fine arts with pop culture. In her latest series, she turns her wily brush to portraitures, with monsters, Muppets, villains, and superheroes ...

People became persons in fifteenth-century Italy. Track the effect in this wonderful show. Start, circa 1425, with the “absolute novelty” (so it says in the catalogue) of a gilded-bronze reliquary ...