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 ...

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

An exhibition and several books explore the links between the mysterious deck of cards created in the Italian Renaissance ...

You’ll find firsthand some works from the Hyde Collection migrated from their normal perches in the house next door (and now ...

The Renaissance rivals Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael vied for the attention of wealthy Italian patrons during the early ...

The English philosopher Francis Bacon, who’s credited with developing the scientific method, wrote in 1620 that the three ...

Ken Burns has told me time and again, in various interviews about his various films, that all his films are about the same ...

This is the down-to-earth subject of a 15th-century sketch by an unidentified Florentine artist ... There are around 2,000 Renaissance drawings in the Royal Collection, mostly amassed during the reign ...

The Royal Collection has an extraordinary number of Renaissance drawings – thanks in large part to Charles II – and here, brought together, are 160 of them showing the development of drawing from the ...

Nevertheless, there were a few notable Italian women in the Renaissance who, for a variety of reasons ... writing in the ...

It is something of an Italian Renaissance trope that during the 15th and 16th centuries ... Painting and Poetry in the 17th Century: Giovan Battista Marino and the Wonderful Passion, Galleria ...

Museum staff have shared the history of a rare Italian renaissance painting they managed to save from being sold overseas.