During the 15th and 16th centuries, a wave of Greek Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy where they contributed tremendously ...

The work has retaken its place at the Museo di San Marco after conservation work that has brought the Italian Renaissance ...

A city steeped in history, art and culture that's long captivated tourists and visitors was also once the capital of Italy.

Starting next Thursday, the 'Deposition' by Italian Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna will be on ... helps explain how the 'Deposition' arrived in Pompeii. In March 1524, the humanist Pietro Summonte ...

ABSTRACT: In two letters to the famous musician Cipriano de Rore, Giovanni Battista Benedetti discussed topics related to music theory. The letters were published in Diversarum speculationum ...

In 1926, Aby Warburg taught a seminar at Hamburg University on the historian Jacob Burckhardt, the ‘exemplary pathfinder’ whose investigation of the Italian Renaissance anticipated ... with some of ...

Throughout, the Brera is gracious, ample, full of surprises and rarely crowded: an oasis of contemplative pleasure in ...

The Italian Renaissance humanist and writer Fra Sabba da Castiglione recommended furnishing the house with musical instruments "because such instruments as these greatly delight the ears … and they ...

The purported motive for Alexander Lee’s spasmodically impressive and frequently pantomimic Ugly Renaissance is his conviction that ... were not superseded until the late 20th century); humanism ...

A provincial museum in northern France has unveiled a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters of the Italian Renaissance, Lavinia Fontana, but which had languished for decades ...