Not unlike many of the Renaissance families of Italy, the Borgias were power hungry, corrupt, and self-indulgent. But their dynasty produced two popes—are they worthy of this notorious legacy?

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

HAMMOND, La. ( WGNO) — With a hood over his head, everyone in old-world Europe knew who the executioner was. His likeness ...

Nothing exemplifies the stereotype of the European travel experience better than the 20th-century version of the 19th-century Grand Tour. Mid-century international travelers would typically head ...

In 'Gods, Guns and Missionaries', Manu Pillai describes how the British Raj led to the birth of Hindu nationalism in India.

A remarkable new exhibition at Marsh's Library in Dublin offers a rare opportunity to see books printed in the decades after ...

Stalin killed hundreds of Ukrainian cultural figures in the ‘Executed Renaissance’. Over 100 Ukrainian artists have been ...

From Mechelen in Belgium and Porvoo in Finland to Veere in the Netherlands and Sokobanja in Serbia, we’ve tracked down the ...

This year, a team of Times journalists marked the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance with a series examining its ...

Across North America, Native communities are carrying on relay racing—a time-honored, high-adrenaline tradition.

Massive and unusually elongated, “The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas” depicts the 13th-century saint throned in a golden sun, ...