Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help ...

Focusing on the centuries when Italy led Western art and literature, i.e. the late Middle Ages and Renaissance ... history) Characteristics and objectives This course (L) is meant primarily for ...

The Sistine Chapel is known for its frescoes, which were painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512. Despite their worldwide fame, scientists are still spotting new details in his works.

Stylistic characteristics and details of iconography have allowed ... but also to visitors who will be able to explore one of the lesser-known aspects of Italian Renaissance painting production.

The Scuderie del Quirinale presents “GUERCINO. The Ludovisi Era in Rome,” a major new exhibition from October 31, 2024, to ...

Works created in white marble, for example, have not only influenced the aesthetic concept of beauty but have also indelibly shaped the course of Western art, from classical civilizations through the ...

Michelangelo began painting frescoes ... studying this masterpiece by the Italian artist, researchers noticed that her left breast shows several signs of breast cancer. "Michelangelo's depiction of ...

Oxford believed that his wife had been unfaithful to him while he was away on a European tour and (for a time, at least) seems to have doubted that he was the father of her first child. Hamlet says to ...

Show at the King's Gallery features an 'enormous cache' of works by the likes of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael ...

A rare early masterpiece by the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico has been acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England ...