Italy's frescoes provide unique insights into cultural, religious, and intellectual history, showcasing the nation's artistic ...

Ashmolean director Dr Xa Sturgis described the painting as "both very calm, but also very charged" Museum staff have shared the history of a rare Italian renaissance painting they managed to save ...

One could say that some paintings in the exhibition “Siena: The Rising of Painting, 1300-1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are movie stills and posters. They look like photographs ...

Something The Mona Lisa, David, and The School of Athens all have in common is they represent a way of thinking that was ...

You will be based in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance and seat of the House of Medici, whose patronage was pivotal to academic and artistic progress. Accompanied by art historian and ...

London has served up a sumptuous Italian Renaissance feast ... The Royal Academy of Art’s (RA) exhibition Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c. 1504, the subject of this review, takes ...

Typically for Kiefer, who embraces metamorphosis in his paintings, the work is brazenly left exposed to the elements ... together with his wider use of fire and electrolysis - alludes to alchemical ...

The best time to visit Florence is between May and September when warm weather ushers in art festivals, open-air dining and the kind of Italian sunshine that inspired the Renaissance painters.