The pieces that are displayed in the exhibition are sourced from the Royal Collection, which, with near 2,000 sheets, possesses one of the world’s largest collections of Renaissance drawings. Drawing ...

A rare painting by Sofonisba Anguissola resurfaced in a private collection after it was thought to have been lost ...

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

Focusing on the artistic innovations of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, this exhibition makes apparent why contemporaries could celebrate a rebirth or Renaissance of the art of classical ...

If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity. What were the ...

Painting and sculpture may fetch the highest prices and become the most renowned artworks, but the humble medium of drawing has been crucially important in art history, if often operating behind the ...

What’s old is new again in a special exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art connecting Italian early modern art with contemporary fashions from Versace, Armani, Ferragamo and others. Hoop skirts, ...

In 15th-century Italy, an architect known as Filarete came up with a groundbreaking system for expelling odors from the latrines of a hospital he was designing in Milan. Waste from the toilet rooms in ...

From Florence to Mantua, the Renaissance left the Italian peninsula with a dazzling architectural heritage. Cathedrals, palaces and villas still bear the imprint of this artistic revolution, born of a ...

In light of the interest in my recent story about George Ingham Barnett, I thought it might be worthwhile to look into the sort of education a young architect such as he would have received back in ...