More than five centuries ago, a small number of style icons used flamboyant, luxurious looks to give them influence and power during a turbulent period of Italian history.

Focusing on the artistic innovations of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, this exhibition makes apparent why contemporaries could celebrate a rebirth or Renaissance of the art of classical ...

If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity. What were the ...

Curator Marietta Cambareri opened her lecture at the McMullen Museum of Art with an image of an art exhibit in its early stages: a room scattered with miscellaneous carts, shelving, and flatbeds.

Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty premieres on PBS on July 8, 2025. The series is narrated by Sophie Okonedo, and features Charles Dance as Michelangelo, Jonny Glynn as Leonardo da Vinci and ...

reporting from WASHINGTON — When American millionaires bought paintings by Piero di Cosimo in the late 19th century, almost all the works were attributed to other Italian Renaissance artists. Piero, a ...

“The actual learning objective is to teach students about the economies of art,” Triseum CEO André Thomas told Hyperallergic. Thomas explained that the game responded to a need of the art history ...

Buckingham Palace has been home to countless exhibitions that explore the history of the British royal family through art design. And now, an exhibition showcasing the artistic royalty of the Italian ...

The Italian Renaissance holds a special place in modern visual culture, especially American pop culture. The number of times re-creations of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper have popped up on the ...

With a major exhibition taking place at the V&A from next month, Renaissance Art is being given, well, a bit of a renaissance (‘scuse the pun) for a modern-day audience. Michelozzo, An Adoring Angel, ...

Jamal Lisby details his "Heavenly Bodies" starting point and how Italy's rich history remains a reference point for designers ...