Featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and others, a show at the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace highlights the period’s works on paper—which, though frequently preparatory, stand as ...

While Florence is often positioned as the center of the Renaissance by art historians, Siena was the site of a phenomenal artistic innovation and activity 1300-1350. Others think that Siena ushered in ...

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

Bundled into a hay-basket, his corpse was smuggled to Florence for a magnificent funeral. The artist's life story became the climax of Vasari's art history textbook - “The Lives of the Artists”.

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

Laurent Binet’s Renaissance epistolary novel blends the postmodern playfulness of Umberto Eco with the vigour of Dashiell ...

If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity. What were the ...