Discover the beauty of Renaissance paintings, where art, realism, and storytelling blend to create timeless masterpieces that ...

The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a ...

His film explores how Black Africans were depicted in Renaissance art, appearing in masterpieces by celebrated artists such as a work by Venetian painter Vittore Carpaccio, which features a Black ...

We often talk about the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance as two separate and distinct movements in art history, since the Renaissance began in Italy before spreading out into ...

A painting of Christ being laid in the tomb, long hidden under layers of overpainting and forgotten by history, will once ...

And it’s not just Montaperti that irks – there’s the Renaissance as well. Ever since the virulently pro-Florentine 16th-century artist and writer Giorgio Vasari drastically downplayed Siena ...

Drawing the Italian Renaissance (1 November-9 March 2025) includes works by 81 artists spanning 1450 to 1600; more than 150 works will be on display from the Royal Collection, nine of which will ...