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

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

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

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

The role of the ultra-wealthy has morphed from one of shared social responsibility and patronage to the freewheeling ...

Portrait of who is believed to be Raffaella Aleotti, and illuminated manuscript with a musician of color. Soloists, Instrumentalists and Co ...

For only the third time this century, a painting by renowned Renaissance great Raphael is coming to auction. It is of Mary ...

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The House of Medici was an Italian banking family that rose to become one of the most powerful political families … Continue ...

Something The Mona Lisa, David, and The School of Athens all have in common is they represent a way of thinking that was shaping and being shaped by the visual arts of that period. From the 14th ...

Advocates hope it will mark the start of a nuclear renaissance, turbocharged by rapid advances in power-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) systems and the return of Donald Trump to the White House.