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The purchase of a roundel for $23 million is the museum’s second largest ever, and fulfills a former curator’s dream after losing out in a 2003 auction.
Whether it is from the inspiration of the ancient Greek and Roman, Medieval or Islamic—the Italian Renaissance Garden is soaked in myth and tradition.
Upon entering Harmonia Rosales’s show Entwined, on view now through May 1 at UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum (AD&A), one could easily imagine having stumbled into a gallery ...
Naples is celebrating the 2,500th anniversary of its foundation by the Greeks, a milestone that underscores its rich Hellenic heritage.
The Renaissance myth: How we got art history wrong 12 February 2016 Everyone knows about the Renaissance - it's that golden period when Italy single-handedly reinvented art... except it isn't.
Roberto Calasso, Renaissance Man of Letters, Dies at 80 A Florentine by birth, he was a polymath as an author and publisher (Kafka, Vedic philosophy, Greek mythology) who reached a wide ...