Byzantine art had a significant impact on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution of the cultural boom of the early modern ages.

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

At Buckingham Palace’s King’s Gallery, is a show of Italian Renaissance royalty. “Drawing the Italian Renaissance” is filled with masterpieces from the epoch by some of the most famous ...

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

From paintings by Caravaggio, Canova, and Raphael, to Bernini sculptures, this beloved Roman gallery is another gem when it comes to Italian Renaissance art. Its collection, which belonged to ...

The incident has left Florentines and experts on Renaissance art bewildered. The David is considered a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance and a symbol of humanist values. It has been displayed ...

Encounter the great scientific minds and discoveries of the Renaissance, which helped cement Italy's role at the forefront ... Accompanied by art historian and Florence resident Jeremy Boudreau ...

Francis I took Milan — the “key of Italy” — then laid siege ... The scope of it all is breathtaking. Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries. Through Jan. 12 at ...

examines those years leading to the onset of the plague that killed millions in Europe around 1350 as an exceptional moment at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance in defining Western painting. The ...

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 ... an exceptional moment at the dawn of the ...