Seville, the capital and largest city of Andalusia, wears its role in Spain’s art history proudly—though much of that fame ...

Two exhibitions reveal how, for the great Renaissance artists, drawing was both a tool for making paintings and a form of ...

Circadia, a new medication, will soon be released for distribution. It has no negative side effects. What does it do? Its marketing name, "The Renaissance Drug," hints at its cornucopia of benefits.

The greatest works of art in Western civilisation were forged in the crucible of northern Italy over a 50-year period at the end of the fifteenth century, by these three artists. Renaissance ...

CHARLES Dance is taking on a completely new challenge in the BBC’s latest historical docu-drama, Renaissance: The Blood and ...

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

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

The Musée du Louvre aims to bring these treasures closer to the public with a new department of Byzantine and Eastern ...

In order to reframe the questions that arise from his encounter with the Gitanjali, Yeats does subtly undermine the dichotomy ...

One of the most striking features of Renaissance maps are the ... Such maps can be dissected as art historical objects; they allow us to gain insight into the imaginations of people during this period ...

Jean-Jacques Henner, a 19th-century French painter, mastered chiaroscuro and sfumato, blending light and shadow to create ...

Although Mělník lacks a formal founding charter, the first historical mention of its status as a city appears in a document issued on November 25, 1274.