The Renaissance, often hailed as one of the most transformative periods in human history, gave rise to an unparalleled explosion of creativity. For anyone who’s stood before the Sistine Chapel or ...

"It's not every day," Gonzalez Juarbe recalls with a laugh, "that one gets to touch a Leonardo." ...

Byzantine art had a significant impact on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution of the cultural boom of the early modern ...

Researchers working on the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project believe the Renaissance Man left his DNA on the chalk drawing titled “Holy Child.” ...

Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art uses the cost of a cow to consider the worth of 16th-century objects. “Bird” (German, Nuremberg, 1580, ...

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The University of Wisconsin School of Human Ecology unveiled its newest exhibition, ‘Remaking the Renaissance,’ curated by Textile Specialist and Research director for the Helen Louise Allen Textile ...

The San Domenico Museum in Forlì, Italy, is hosting a monumental exhibition, “Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance.” The show brings together 360 works of art, borrowed from major European, American, ...

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Scientists have recovered tiny DNA traces left on Renaissance artefacts, at least some of which they suspect belong to ...