Renaissance: The Blood and The Beauty explores the lives of three rival artists - Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael – who created seductively beautiful works of art during an a ...

Should art museums be showing art history? Or cultural history, which isn't the same thing? Getty and LACMA exhibitions give ...

Fun, cheeky and irreverent, Death of the Reprobate prances through art history with a wicked twinkle in its eye. It's this ...

What gives some works of art incredible staying power while others ... what would become his—and perhaps America’s—most famous painting. Of course, the artist wasn’t finished.

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

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Renaissance figure Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous ... t often seen in art from the time. “Generally speaking, Renaissance paintings of bodies ...

Yet, for head of prints and drawings Martin ... Raphael, that famous lover, was one of only a handful of Renaissance artists to draw from the nude female model. A couple of head studies by ...

What is it about the art of Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael that moves you? The use of hands and gesture brought paintings to life in the Renaissance. This sensitive attention to detail and ...

Ken Burns dives into the boundless curiosity at the core of Leonardo da Vinci's exploits in new PBS documentary.