VENICE .- Over 70 works from the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, including 20 paintings by great sixteenth to eighteenth-century Venetian masters, which return to Venice after centuries, appear alongside drawings and paintings from the Venetian civic collections,...

Palma Vecchio (Jacopo Negretti), Portrait of a young woman known as "La Bella", ca. 1518-20. Oil on canvas. 95 x 80 cm © Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid MADRID - From 20 June to 24 September 2017, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is hosting Renaissance Venice....

Giuseppe Porta, called Salviati (1520–1575), Bellerophon Killing the Chimera. Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on blue paper faded to gray-brown; squared in red and black chalk. Gift of Janos Scholz. Photography:...

Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian. Portrait of Johann Frederich, Elector of Saxony. 1548-1551. Oil on canvas. Gemäldegalerie of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The de Young Museum in San Francisco is showing a global exclusive...