“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The UK’s forthcoming Donatello exhibition will capture the Florentine artist’s revolutionary genius for perspective, male beauty and, above all, empathy A startling figure has arrived in Britain: a ...

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 ...

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 ...