The Renaissance era was one of the most beautiful and out-of-the-world revolutions in the arts arena. Be it unique painting techniques or flourishing artists like da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli ...

The story, told by Giorgio Vasari in his “Lives of the Painters”, has for centuries been the standard account of the origins of the Renaissance, cementing Cimabue’s role as a transitional ...

“We’re delighted to offer a new perspective on the Renaissance, as this series explores how some of the most famous achievements in Western art emerged out of a dark time of war and political ...

And the fact that the paintings are 700 years old adds to their verisimilitude. The exhibition at the Met, which runs through Jan. 26, examines those years leading to the onset of the plague that ...

Between 1300 and 1600 the Western world was transformed. An extraordinary wave of artistic and cultural innovation shattered medieval society and brought European culture reluctantly into the ...

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 ...

An exhibition of works evacuated from the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art has opened at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.