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

Ashmolean saves Fra Angelico masterpiece for the public, launching the museum as world-leading centre for the study of ...

Fun, cheeky and irreverent, Death of the Reprobate prances through art history with a wicked twinkle in its eye. It's this ...

In Disney’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper ’s Rivals, the romance novelist Lizzie Vereker sits at her typewriter, and imagines a ...

Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, according to researchers.

In the Legion of Honor’s Renaissance gallery, a new 400-year-old acquisition sparkles with a vibrancy belying its age. San Francisco is the new home to Lavinia Fontana’s 400-year-old painted “Portrait ...

Beautiful Art Deco buildings can be viewed all over the world, from the joyous streets of Miami Beach, where the highest ...

Discover the political and cultural landscape of Florence at the turn of the 16th century, when Renaissance masters ...

The figure of Saint Michael, or Michael the Archangel, is one of the most powerful and revered beings in religious history. Known as the protector of the faithful and a warrior against evil, Archangel ...

exploring the city through the seminal works of art that were made, commissioned or displayed at the high point of the Italian Renaissance – the year 1504. It was a moment when three of the world’s ...