Renaissance: The Blood and The Beauty explores the lives of three rival artists - Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael – who ...

Ada Palmer, University of Chicago 'Christopher Celenza brilliantly threads the needle to produce a portrait of Italian Renaissance humanism for our time. Deeply attentive to personal experiences and ...

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

Our gaze oscillates between a lavish blue woodland scene, three children crouched under a mantle, and an adult figure above ...

Not unlike many of the Renaissance families of Italy, the Borgias were power hungry, corrupt, and self-indulgent. But their ...

Leonardo trains as an artist and eventually paints a masterpiece: The Last Supper. Leonardo da Vinci grows up in a Tuscan ...

The celebrated documentarian turns his lens on the great Renaissance polymath, with mixed results.

Art, as a mirror of society, evolves dynamically over time . Movements, or ldquo;isms rdquo;, influence one another through reactions, innovations, and reinterpretations .

The history of art is full of pieces inspired by religion. This makes sense of course, since religion was an integral part of ...

Beyond these two must-see Italian ... humanism of Giotto's figures broke away from the rigidity of Byzantine art, and his focus on perspective and dimensions helped to bring about the Renaissance.

He was among the greatest humanists of the fifteenth century ... thus going down in history as one of the greatest patrons of the Italian Renaissance.