The Renaissance, often hailed as one of the most transformative periods in human history, gave rise to an unparalleled explosion of creativity. For anyone who’s stood before the Sistine Chapel or ...

Byzantine art had a significant impact on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution of the cultural boom of the early modern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wild visions: detail of Andromeda Freed by Perseus (with Perseus Slaying the Dragon) by Piero di Cosimo - VCG Wilson/Corbis via ...

Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art uses the cost of a cow to consider the worth of 16th-century objects. “Bird” (German, Nuremberg, 1580, ...

If you show a picture of Michelangelo’s statue of David, one of the most familiar works in art history, to a room full of schoolchildren they may smirk or giggle over the figure’s naked body. It only ...

In 1963, shortly after graduating from an elite English boarding school, I went to Florence, Italy, where I stayed for about six months. I enrolled in the then-well-known drawing school, Studio Simi, ...

The University of Wisconsin School of Human Ecology unveiled its newest exhibition, ‘Remaking the Renaissance,’ curated by Textile Specialist and Research director for the Helen Louise Allen Textile ...

By Vijay Kumar Malesu A new preprint reveals how swabbing priceless artworks uncovers centuries of biological history, while ...

The prodigal son kneels among pigs, surrounded by buildings in a wretched state of disrepair; their dilapidation mirrors the son's physical and spiritual destitution. The setting is the village of ...

Scientists have recovered trace DNA from Renaissance drawings and letters linked to Leonardo da Vinci, using minimally ...