The stunning frescoes are attributed to Italian Baroque painter Carlo Maratta and his pupils, Girolamo Troppa and François ...

Ken Burns documentaries are their own category. There are documentaries, and then there are Ken Burns documentaries. Burns' ...

The role and evolution of revolutionary texts cannot be stressed enough. Printmaking rather than murals became a dominant ...

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

Rosy-cheeked cherubs surrounded by blues, reds and golds have lost none of their brilliance in 17th-century frescoes ...

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.

A museum has raised almost £4.5m to save a rare Italian renaissance painting. The Ashmolean Museum, which is part of the University of Oxford, paid £4.48m for the 1420s crucifixion painting by ...

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.

As mentioned before, Death of the Reprobate’s graphics consist of cutouts from famous Renaissance paintings. As a result it looks unsurprisingly gorgeous with some stunning backgrounds used to ...

The Fibonacci sequence is a famous mathematical sequence where each ... Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" and a bevy of Renaissance buildings. Overarching claims about the ratio being "uniquely ...

Oprah Winfrey, Sir Elton John and Barack Obama are among the famous figures who have paid tribute to Quincy Jones following his death at the age of 91. Following the announcement of his death on ...