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

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

The Louvre’s restoration of La Maestà has shed new light on the painter’s techniques and influences, while a new exhibition ...

Travel expert Rick Steves deems this Italian city the "Cultural Capital of Europe" due to its rich history and artistic ...

From the Prado in Madrid and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to the National Museum of Art in Beijing and the Getty Center in ...

For centuries, the Italian painter Cimabue has ... features emphasising his connection to Islamic art and design. Pseudo-Arabic script, for example, painted over in the 19th century, was found ...

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 J. Paul Getty Museum's priceless collection of artwork, which includes paintings by Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Monet and Degas, ...

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In that case, you might consider the entire cottage a kind of 1,600-square-foot “cabinet of curiosities,” an Italian ...

What secrets are hidden in the drawings made during the Italian Renaissance? What stories can they tell us? What do we know about them, and what may we never know? Over the last six years, curators ...