Drawing, it suggests, isn’t a rarefied activity. There are around 2,000 Renaissance drawings in the Royal Collection, mostly amassed during the reign of Charles II, including show-stopping sheets from ...

Scholars, artists, designers, and Pulitzer Prize-winning musicians gathered at the 2024 International Art Exhibition of La ...

Explore Building Biospheres at the 19th Biennale Architettura, where architecture meets plant intelligence for sustainable ...

Show at the King's Gallery features an 'enormous cache' of works by the likes of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael ...

Monday, Nov. 18 and 19, 2024 from 8 - 10 p.m. / PBS app. This is a two-part, four-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, ...

ROME (AP) — The city of Florence took new measures Tuesday to crack down on overtourism, just as the Italian government hosts ...

Beginning in 1486, during the Renaissance, we see Venice and Murano from plague to plague (and quarantine ... Ph.D. is ...

The painting is part of a series of frescoes that cover the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

A rare early masterpiece by the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico has been acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England ...

A museum has raised almost £4.5m to save a rare Italian renaissance painting. The Ashmolean Museum, which is part of the University of Oxford, paid £4.48m for the 1420s crucifixion painting by artist ...

The church was built in honor of St. Mark the Evangelist, whose remains were stolen in Alexandria, Egypt, by a couple crafty Venetians, intent on bringing him to rest in Venice. (What made them ...