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

Scientists uncover hidden maths depicted in tree branch patterns in da Vinci and Mondrian artwork - Study offers perspective to ‘appreciate and recreate beauty of trees’ in art, scientists say ...

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

This destination in Europe is one of the prettiest places you can head to for scenery and you'll even be able to enjoy it ...

When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown ...

Featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and others, a show at the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace highlights ...

A new exhibition in London traces the evolution of tarot from Renaissance Italy to the present day, with the card designs ...

arguably the world's most famous polymath. As you rise and progress into the next hall, the cold air-conditioning cocoons you even as your imagination starts to ignite with the creativity of this ...

Jan van Eyck, one of the most famous artists of the Renaissance period, and often called the pioneer of the Northern Renaissance was an exceptional painter who served under a King and a Duke in ...

Each summer, the remote Italian island of Alicudi attracts a slow drip of tourists looking to escape the trappings of modernity. There are no cars or even roads on the two-square-mile volcanic ...