It took three Renaissance Masters to create the Duke of Ferrara's "Feast of the Gods," each leaving their own distinctive ...

The mathematics underpinning the modern method of elliptic curve cryptography originated with Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi ...

Leonardo and Michelangelo, duking it out for Renaissance commissions, became bitter rivals, but why did their beef begin?

A 500-year-old painting from the collection at Hartwick College's Yager Museum recently got a facelift. According to a news release for the college, The Yager Museum of Art & Culture is celebrating as ...

With glittering treasures from Siena’s golden age at every turn, this outstanding exhibition at The National Gallery in London is the first outside of continental Europe to consider the major role tha ...

Though it only had the distinction of being the world’s tallest building for 11 months, the Chrysler Building in ...

This city in Tuscany is often overlooked when compared to Rome or Florence, but it is brimming with wonderful Medieval art ...

a bevy of squabbling late Renaissance artists, led by art historian Giorgio Vasari. The ensuing whodunit unfolds in letters, as Vasari corresponds with friends and suspects across Italy, many of them ...

While many tourists flock to Italy’s more famous destinations ... From ancient cave dwellings to medieval villages frozen in time, travellers looking for something truly different can find ...

The couple jointly visited the tomb of the legendary medieval Italian poet, Dante – the “father of the Italian language” – where they listened to a reading of his most famous work, The Divine Comedy.

The story of how tarot evolved from a Renaissance card game to a ubiquitous ... But at the same time, the cards entered the mainstream. German art historian Aby Warburg, the namesake of the ...