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 ...

Fresco by Giovanni Cimabue in the Lower Basilica of Assisi. Credit: Cimabue, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5 One of the most intriguing cultural exchanges in European history is the significant impact of ...

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

But 70 years later, restored, it rides again. By Mary Logan Bikoff To match Jack Shainman Gallery’s new Beaux-Arts flagship, the artist known for his Soundsuits debuts a sculpture nearly 26 feet ...

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 ... in Europe around 1350 as ...

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino—known simply as Raphael to most—was part of the Holy Trinity of the High Renaissance ... the artist is not only flexing his art-historical knowledge, but also ...

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 ...

The Patio de la Infanta in Zaragoza, Spain, was built by the banker of Carlos I as a sign of love for his wife. After several ...

A rare glimpse into mobster Al Capone’s home life will be on display in a new exhibit at the Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas. VIEW Oliviero Toscani, the photographer behind Benetton’s ...

Back in the childhoods of the baby boomers everyone seemed to know that Shakespeare was born in 1564 because there was a ...