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

What is protest, if not the trembling murmur of a society’s conscience? Across centuries and continents, protest has not only ...

The portly, balding sculptor-turned-architect must have drawn a few curious gazes as he set up a complicated painting apparatus in the corner of a Renaissance ... before his death he laid out ...

Some cities don’t just exist in the present — they straddle the past and breathe history into every stone, building, and ...

These days, when we come to art through memes ... Is it spiritual or sexual? In Renaissance literature, as in Shakespeare or John Donne, dying is used to mean both orgasm and death. Mary Magdalene’s ...

Socrates sits within Antiquity, Leonardo da Vinci within the Renaissance; even Shakespeare has been subsumed ... that would rapidly establish themselves in the decades following his death or the ...

A reflection on how artists have portrayed popes, the intersection of art and religion, and Pope Francis’s legacy following ...

Artist Robert Morgan was in his apartment when he heard the shots that killed the music icon. He recalls that horrific night ...