Two new art exhibits Knights in Armor the Pavia Tapestries and Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka now open at Museum of Fine ...

As a restorer who specialized in late medieval and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, he was in intimate touch with the ...

It seems like humans always need to know who or what is the best in any category. Renaissance people were no different. A ...

Leonardo da Vinci, history's ultimate genius polymath, still makes headlines as his work inspires new research.

The Italian Renaissance is, perhaps the most famous period in history. In Caprarola, there is building that embodies all that ...

With its implication that the young woman isn’t as chaste as she should be, the marriage-prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative ...

Disaronno’s origins trace back to 1525, during the Italian Renaissance, when artist Bernardino Luini, a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, painted the Madonna using a local innkeeper as his model. As a thank ...

In mail art, the canvas is a postcard or a piece of ... journalers such as Martina Calvi (“who started the junk journal renaissance”) and Kalli (“the junk journal queen of Chicago”).

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 ...

The Italian city is renowned as the setting of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and is known as "little Rome" thanks to its preserved ancient aspects. With lots of medieval and renaissance buildings, ...

It's been a topsy-turvy season for both of these Italian giants. While Roma have recovered from an awful start that was chock-full of self-inflicted wounds, Juventus have grown steadily less ...

During a military campaign in the Peloponnese between 1464 and 1466, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, one of the greatest generals of the Italian Renaissance, stole the remains of the Greek scholar and ...