Family identity and professional conformism are as important as any putative Renaissance “individualism” in Iris Origo’s ...

While Florence is often positioned as the center of the Renaissance by art historians, Siena was the site of a phenomenal ...

For centuries, the Italian painter Cimabue has been overshadowed by his more famous pupil Giotto, who—with his attention to ...

A new exhibition at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art ... the Italian Renaissance flourished. It’s the first major ...

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 ... millions in Europe around ...