After discovering the identity of his mother, a slave from the Caucasus, Carlo Vecce publishes the monumental 'Life of Leonardo' (Alfaguara), of 680 pages. "The goal is to recover his humanity beyond ...

Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s masterpiece captures the folly of humanity’s desire to reach heaven on its own terms.

A new exhibition opening next month at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, explores the Italian ...

For the first time, the Prado museum in Spain is bringing together eight seminal artworks by the Greek artist El Greco.

Filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu brings his documentary We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe ...

Nearly 10 years ago, the New York University professor, historian and Pulitzer Prize winner was sitting in historic First Congregational Church, admiring a triptych of stained glass windows installed ...

With a voluminous body of work to choose from, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore highlighted one Neil Young song as his all-time favourite.

Javascript is required to view this map. Lecturer in Early Modern Art and Material Cultures at Courtauld Institute of Art Felix Jäger is a Lecturer in Early Modern European Art and Material Cultures ...

Seeing the decline of Western civilization in the trash art of movies is why The Day of ... for golden-era Hollywood that inspired the renaissance of American movies in the 1970s.

The French President Emmanuel Macron paid a visit to Leonardo’s Mona Lisa on Tuesday (28 January) to announce a “new renaissance” of the Musée du Louvre, after its director Laurence des ...

Nuclear power, in particular, has been on the cusp of a renaissance for years, driven by advances in fuel and reactor designs that promise to make a new generation of power plants safer and ...