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 ...

While Florence is often positioned as the center of the Renaissance by art historians, Siena was the site of a phenomenal artistic innovation and activity 1300-1350. Others think that Siena ushered in ...

The show rightly avoids the bias toward Florence in early Renaissance narratives that unfold in most museums and art history curricula outside of Italy. However, recent trailblazing research is ...

One city that happens to have its fair share of both art and religious sites is Florence. The so-called ... And while you can see many Renaissance artworks all over the city, one of the best ...

The Royal Academy’s exhibition on Florence does ... through the seminal works of art that were made, commissioned or ...

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.

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 ...

“For art lovers, the thrill of arriving somewhere like Florence that gathers so much ... is surely evidence of the special power of Renaissance art.” Ahead, learn more about Stendhal Syndrome ...