Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

I love art, and though Renaissance art isn't my favorite, I always find myself utterly and completely floored by its level of ...

Something The Mona Lisa, David, and The School of Athens all have in common is they represent a way of thinking that was shaping and being shaped by the visual arts of that period. From the 14th ...

Featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and others, a show at the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace highlights ...

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 ...

This painting was holding a centuries-old secret that art historians were thrilled to find. A close examination of "Ecce Homo" by Renaissance artist Titian revealed another painting underneath.

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 ...

Researchers display the layers of analysis on conducted on a 16th century work of art by Renaissance master Titian, which ...