Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the ...

A New York Harlem Renaissance artist history forgot painted impressionism, Black African American life in the Southeast and ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

Featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and others, a show at the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace highlights ...

It's so complex, and there are lots of hidden Easter eggs that we're still finding! So here are hidden details in famous ...

In the case of a massive Peter Paul Rubens masterpiece in the artist's Belgian hometown, the studio had to be taken to the ...

Deep beneath Rome’s Domus Aurea, archaeologists have unearthed a rare ingot of Egyptian blue — the world’s first synthetic pigment.

France's president says a second museum entrance will be built, while non-EU residents will also pay more to visit.

Jan van Eyck, one of the most famous artists of the Renaissance period, and often called the pioneer of the Northern Renaissance was an exceptional painter who served under a King and a Duke in ...

Here, AD rounds up famous buildings from around the world ... Frescoes by Michaelangelo, Botticelli, and other Renaissance painters adorn the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which was ...