Discover the beauty of Renaissance paintings, where art, realism, and storytelling blend to create timeless masterpieces that continue to inspire today. Read on.

Silencing them, his beautiful brushstrokes came to embody the peak of Renaissance art ... “Pietà,” a tender depiction of the Virgin Mary cradling the lifeless body of her son.

To achieve this goal, he hired Michelangelo to make a memorial for his tomb that would capture a scene that was popular in Northern European art at the time: the tragic moment of the Virgin Mary ...

By then, gossip-biographer Giorgio Vasari had situated Florence, Rome, and Venice as centers of Renaissance art. You can feel ... painterly knowledge. The Virgin Mary was the patron saint of ...

Renaissance Italy was ... by Leonardo’s 1503 work “The Virgin and St. Anne,” which depicts a lamb held by the Christ Child as his mother Mary embraces him. The Virgin is, in turn, seated ...

While on a trip to Venice, Toibin happened upon two very different works of art: Titian's Assumption of the Virgin ... to allow Mary to speak in the same way that artists of the Renaissance ...

For example, Yemaya, who's the mother to all, she's the ocean goddess, she's the Virgin Mary. They wear blue ... fresh reinterpretation of an art form which experienced its apex 500 years ago.