The Italian Renaissance painter’s 16th-century work inside the cathedral in Parma is a dizzying illusionistic achievement, ...

Antonio Arcidiacono, Director of Technology & Innovation, EBU As we stand on the edge of a new industrial revolution, the ...

For 25 years, Friends of Florence has worked to conserve and protect the city’s priceless art and architecture, raising ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti, a towering figure of the Italian Renaissance, excelled as a sculptor, painter, and architect. His ...

From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...

With minimal ingenuity, any historical period can be made to dissolve into the ones around it. Take the rock revolution—that great shift which, emerging in the mid-nineteen-fifties and established by ...

See the universe like never before captured by a 609 megapixel camera Long before he became the greatest artist of the Renaissance, Michelangelo committed an art fraud that fooled a wealthy buyer.

In 2013, musician Jack Conte made a music video called "Pedals." He spent seven weeks and $10,000 building the set: "I remember the blood, sweat and tears, the months of pain, and hours and hours, and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Venice’s Accademia owns the most enigmatic and poetic of all Renaissance paintings, Giorgione’s “The Tempest”, ...

“Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael” is a tightly curated look into the influence and mastery the three Renaissance artists exerted as their lives and work intersected in early sixteenth-century Florence ...

It only lasted a few hours. It was really a rout. But the Battle of Pavia, which changed the balance of power in Europe, was an event of such sweeping action and teeming complexity that perhaps only a ...

Renaissance: The Blood and The Beauty explores the lives of three rival artists - Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael – who created seductively beautiful works of art during an age of violence and ...