What would the Renaissance be without its mysteries and tantalizing gossip? In the spirit of Georgio Vasari's original Renaissance tabloid, The Lives of the Artist, we've compiled a list of the latest ...

A time dominated by the likes of Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Botticelli, the Italian Renaissance was a stunning period for art. A new website from Oxford University Press’s Grove Art Online ...

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 ...

Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty premieres on PBS on July 8, 2025. The series is narrated by Sophie Okonedo, and features Charles Dance as Michelangelo, Jonny Glynn as Leonardo da Vinci and ...

HE stands just shy of 5 feet 3 and weighs in about 300 pounds. He lost his right foot a while back. And he hasn’t shut his mouth for close to five centuries. But “Saint John Capistran,” a 450-year-old ...

For the first time in 40 years, Italian Renaissance master Donatello (ca. 1386–1466) has a major solo show—and the curator, Francesco Caglioti, hopes the blockbuster exhibition will help elevate the ...

The materials and techniques of Italian Renaissance sculpture / G.M. Helms -- The revival of antiquity in early Renaissance sculpture / H.W. Janson -- On the sources and meaning of the Renaissance ...

With a major exhibition taking place at the V&A from next month, Renaissance Art is being given, well, a bit of a renaissance (‘scuse the pun) for a modern-day audience. Michelozzo, An Adoring Angel, ...

The Italian Renaissance was the birth of Western art as it is known today. When asked to think of “great” paintings, minds often conjure Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” Michelangelo’s program on 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 ...

Some of the most magnificent art masterpieces in history are on display in Minneapolis—but only for a limited time. Thanks to a rare partnership between the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, and the ...