In Laurent Binet’s new novel, Michelangelo and others grapple with the fallout from a scandalous painting. If you think ...

In the birthplace of Italian sculpture ... the first of his Renaissance marble masterpieces, now installed at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Bruni explained that Michelangelo spent long stretches ...

Recent protests on racial justice have also questioned the portrayal of Jesus as a white man. An art historian explains how ...

Some of the best-known depictions of Christ, from Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” to Michelangelo ... In the Renaissance, European artists began to combine the icon and the portrait ...

In 1987, Frederick Hartt, an authority on Renaissance sculpture at the University of Virginia, pronounced as genuine a small plaster study for ... professor of Italian Renaissance art at the ...

The Italian Renaissance is, perhaps the most famous period in history. In Caprarola, there is building that embodies all that ...

European monarchs and religious entities had a penchant for erecting massively elaborate and intricately beautiful monuments ...

Only her coin portraits—issued in her lifetime ... Ultimately everyone from Michelangelo to Brecht got a crack at her. The Renaissance was obsessed with her, the Romantics even more so.