Step inside the world of the Renaissance and discover how Florence, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo shaped history ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. The Renaissance, often hailed as one of the most transformative periods in human history, gave rise to ...

Explore the lives of three rival artists - Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael Renaissance: The Blood and The Beauty explores the lives of three rival artists - Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael – who ...

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

For the first time in 40 years, Italian Renaissance master Donatello (ca. 1386–1466) has a major solo show—and the curator, Francesco Caglioti, hopes the blockbuster exhibition will help elevate the ...

A time dominated by the likes of Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Botticelli, the Italian Renaissance was a stunning period for art. A new website from Oxford University Press’s Grove Art Online ...

In the summer of 1521 Albrecht Dürer was travelling in the Low Countries. Just as he was leaving Antwerp on July 2, he received a message from King Christian II of Denmark, who was in town. The ...

Renaissance: The Blood and The Beauty explores the lives of three rival artists - Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael – who created seductively beautiful works of art during an age of violence and ...