It seems like humans always need to know who or what is the best in any category. Renaissance people were no different. A ...

"Pastoral on Paper" features 38 works including drawings, etchings, and paintings that explore the depiction of idealized ...

So where is this heading? The Russian, taken all in all, is the greatest of European cultures. Music dominates in Germany, ...

While the anecdote concerning the prostitute Mary Magdalene is deeply moving, the compassion and forgiveness which Jesus shared with her was a part of his communion with everyone whom he helped, ...

A deep thinker with a sharp wit, Bernie was both a scientist and a humanist. He brought joy to ... Bernie was a true Renaissance man - a title affectionately bestowed upon him by David Andes ...

M. Fedyuk, a Ukrainian art scholar, described Kondzelevych’s work as representing the consummate fusion of the ornate Byzantine style with the humanism of the Western European Renaissance.

Intellectual life in the modern West traces its origins to the ancient Greeks and Romans. However, by the launch of the First ...

It is true that some Renaissance artists were elevated into a gleaming ivory tower ... literacy levels in Florence were not superseded until the late 20th century); humanism (panegyrics to Florence ...

Pope Francis is dead at 88. His legacy includes an embrace of contemporary art, such as the first papal visit to the Venice ...

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta.

Paul Getty Museum has acquired a painting by Luis de Morales (1505-86)—the Spanish Renaissance artist referred ... protagonists of 16th-century Spanish art.” The Morales work joins the Getty ...

Max L. Feldman on the newly opened Mucha Museum in Prague.