The story of Kraków is one of light and shadow, where Middle Ages and Renaissance chapters contrast with darker pages from ...

Something The Mona Lisa, David, and The School of Athens all have in common is they represent a way of thinking that was shaping and being shaped by the visual arts of that period. From the 14th ...

A weekly crosstown bus from their Upper West Side apartment to look at some art seemed like ... of children in the Renaissance—not great. (“I mean, in the early Nativity scenes, Jesus is ...

A few years of reconstruction later, it had gained the neo-Renaissance look that can be seen in the photos ... and the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary standing in the distance. When ...

Duke University Press have just published a new volume on Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art by the ... of the Italian Renaissance, reinterprets the theme with a strong symbolic density, placing ...

Featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and others, a show at the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace highlights ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Workers uncovered elaborate frescoes hidden behind a mantel in a church. The glittering works of art are revealing more about ...

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 ...

A new exhibition at Buckingham Palace features over 150 Renaissance drawings by masters like Raphael, Michelangelo, and ...

A rare portrait by Bernardino de’ Conti, a peer of Leonardo da Vinci, set a record at Sotheby's Master Paintings auction.