And that’s what the Renaissance Florentines were doing. Think of the extraordinary “class of 1500” living during that exciting time: Michelangelo was inspired by Leonardo da Vinci.

The Renaissance polymath Leon Battista Alberti asked his contemporaries to consider that painting is grounded in mathematics, that architecture manifests and produces social order, that fame is ...

That sort of cross-pollination of artistic, technical, and scientific creativity during the Italian Renaissance is the focus of Ng’s research. His new book, “Form and Fortification: The Art of ...

During the Renaissance, the Italian diet consisted primarily of wine and bread, with a small portion of meat (preferably a type of foul, because birds lived closer to the heavens when they took flight ...

In 15th-century Italy, an architect known as Filarete came up with a groundbreaking system for expelling odors from the latrines of a hospital he was ...

Michelangelo’s magnificent “David” epitomizes the creativity that flowed in Florence, Italy, during the Renaissance, and nothing quite compares to seeing his much-celebrated sculpture up ...

ANTONIO RICCI, The Renaissance in Toronto: Early Modern Italian Books in the Collections of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme, Vol. 37, No. 3, ...

Antonio Solario's painting was snatched from the Civic Museum of Belluno in 1973. Now, after a drawn out legal battle and a convincing case argued by the art world's 'Sherlock Holmes', its British own ...