Imagine walking down a street and running into a childhood friend you haven’t seen in decades. Despite the years and the ...

Italian researcher Isabella Dalla Ragione has a most unusual job. An “arboreal archaeologist,” Dalla Ragione scours Renaissance paintings and medieval archives, discovering endangered fruits ...

Throughout, the Brera is gracious, ample, full of surprises and rarely crowded: an oasis of contemplative pleasure in ...

The tender family portrait had been wrongly attributed to a male painter of the Northern Renaissance.

A provincial museum in northern France has unveiled a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters of the Italian Renaissance, Lavinia Fontana, but which had languished for decades ...

is considered one of the first women to make a career out of painting in Western art and an outstanding representative of the ...

Day, the author of Baby Meets World, wrote his narrative nonfiction as an account of the attempt to steal the Mona Lisa in ...

his pioneering yet rudimentary attempts at perspective helped usher in the early Italian Renaissance, so playing an instrumental role in changing the course of Western art forever. To the shock ...

Encounter the great scientific minds and discoveries of the Renaissance, which helped cement Italy's role at the forefront ... Accompanied by art historian and Florence resident Jeremy Boudreau ...