Art fraud was a common occurrence in the Italian Renaissance. Even a young Michelangelo took part in such a scheme, long ...

Ginevra de' Benci was a poet famed for her beauty and intellect. But art historians know little about her beyond the writings ...

Raphael and Dürer struck up a long-distance friendship when they were at the peak of their popularity, living over 600 miles ...

"It's been wonderful to have the old dog learn some new tricks," said Ken Burns, now in his fifth decade as a filmmaker, ...

Each artist left behind their own distinctive mark on the painting, now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National ...

The show rightly avoids the bias toward Florence in early Renaissance narratives that unfold in most museums and art history curricula outside of Italy. However, recent trailblazing research is ...

During a first-time visit to Florence, see the Florence Cathedral Il Duomo, Uzzifi, The Palazzo Vecchio, Ponte Vecchio, ...

On X, these photos are all dubbed "Renaissance paintings" due to their varying degrees of resemblance to the work of 15th century Italian masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo.

A Renaissance painting once stolen from a nobleman’s home in southwest England and found at a bus stop in London may sell for $32 million at an art auction next month. Tiziano Vecellio’s early ...

She wondered if she could excavate art history to create an understanding of the world around her. In Ghost, the exhibition on display at Franz Kaka, Carvalho trains her eye on the Renaissance ...

An “arboreal archaeologist,” Dalla Ragione scours Renaissance paintings and medieval archives, discovering endangered fruits that might be revived. Her life’s work offers a possible solution ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is showcasing visual artists from the Harlem Renaissance in the exhibition, “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.” When we think about the Harlem ...