A time dominated by the likes of Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Botticelli, the Italian Renaissance was a stunning period for art. A new website from Oxford University Press’s Grove Art Online ...

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 ...

What would the Renaissance be without its mysteries and tantalizing gossip? In the spirit of Georgio Vasari's original Renaissance tabloid, The Lives of the Artist, we've compiled a list of the latest ...

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 ...

Painting and sculpture may fetch the highest prices and become the most renowned artworks, but the humble medium of drawing has been crucially important in art history, if often operating behind the ...

Some of the most magnificent art masterpieces in history are on display in Minneapolis—but only for a limited time. Thanks to a rare partnership between the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, and the ...

For the first time in 40 years, Italian Renaissance master Donatello (ca. 1386–1466) has a major solo show—and the curator, Francesco Caglioti, hopes the blockbuster exhibition will help elevate the ...

What’s old is new again in a special exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art connecting Italian early modern art with contemporary fashions from Versace, Armani, Ferragamo and others. Hoop skirts, ...

In 15th-century Italy, an architect known as Filarete came up with a groundbreaking system for expelling odors from the latrines of a hospital he was designing in Milan. Waste from the toilet rooms in ...

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, ...

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