The Prince, represents Machievelli’s efforts to guide political action based on history’s lessons and his personal experience ...

For his first non-American subject, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns chose Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci.

Italy is world-renowned for its art, and there's nowhere better to see this art on display than its museums. These are the ...

Ken Burns is dramatically changing direction with his monumental two-part PBS “Leonardo da Vinci” series: It is the first ...

Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum paid the impressive sum to prevent the rare Italian Renaissance painting from leaving the UK after more than 200 years. Fra Angelico's “The Crucifixion” was set ...

This autumn seems to be the season for Old Master Drawings exhibitions! The Fondation Custodia in Paris opened a new show ...

Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum paid the impressive sum to prevent the rare Italian Renaissance painting from leaving the UK after more than 200 years. Fra Angelico's “The Crucifixion” was set to be sold to ...

Museum staff have shared the history of a rare Italian renaissance painting they managed to save from being sold overseas. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford announced on Thursday that the 1420s ...

If anyone thinks that we live in a uniquely degraded political age, let them spare a thought for late medieval Italy. Consider, for example, Galeazzo II Visconti, who secured his rule over Milan in ...

Art and culture being accessible to all is "fundamental", the Ashmolean Museum director has said, after securing nearly £5 million in funding to save a rare Italian Renaissance painting.

Art and culture being accessible to all is “fundamental”, the Ashmolean Museum director has said, after securing nearly £5 million in funding to save a rare Italian Renaissance painting in ...