A groundbreaking show at the Louvre dedicated to the medieval painter Cimabue includes an exceptionally rare panel discovered ...

If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity. What were the ...

The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a ...

We often talk about the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance as two separate and distinct movements in art history, since the Renaissance began in Italy before spreading out into ...

Thematically, most art portrayed biblical narratives ... Florence, the seat of the Italian Renaissance, first grew as a wool-producing city involved in a network of Mediterranean and Indian ...

And it’s not just Montaperti that irks – there’s the Renaissance as well. Ever since the virulently pro-Florentine ...

The School of Athens, one of the most famous frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program provides students with a broad introduction to the ...