New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection ... This book examines the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century engagement with a crucial part of Britain's past, the period ...

Empowered by new wealth and inspired by the humanist fascination with the individual, patrons of art in the early period of the Renaissance began asserting themselves into commissioned works of ...

Historian Alexander Bevilacqua joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultural rebirth which came to be known as The Renaissance. When did The Renaissance begin? What was it ...

In the early 1300s, the Tuscan hilltop city of Siena lived through a great period of prosperity ... hieratic grace" of Byzantine-influenced art and concocted a new style, characterised by ...

Siena’s art is currently stealing the global limelight ... the great Sienese artist of the early Renaissance. But there is also a great deal happening backstage in Siena, with several projects ...

The exciting new groundbreaking book by George M. Johnson, "Flamboyants: the Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known," is ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The 16th century was an age of exploration in all senses of the term, a period when colossal advances in ...

From Botticelli’s Venus to Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, we’re all familiar with the beauty hallmarks of Renaissance period art; think soft, feminine curves, alabaster skin and cascading tresses. But ...

Many of us are still pained by his early demise 20 years ... in China to propose the "greater art" concept and put his ideas into practice. In the latter period of his career, he founded an ...