London’s National Gallery mounts a small but delightful show about the 15th-century painter who, in his work for the Medici and other leading families, encapsulated the best of his era’s ...

An archaeological dig in eastern France revealed the remnants of a five-foot-high equestrian statue that likely overlooked a city's gates.

A new art exhibit at the Spelman College Museum of Art reimagines Renaissance-era creation stories with Black ... It was from the 15th to 16th century that “art came to be seen as a branch of ...

Multisided portraiture emerged in the Netherlands in the early 15th century, then spread to Italy and elsewhere in Northern Europe. According to Nogueira, the practice built on traditions dating ...

Filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu brings his documentary We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe to UC Santa Barbara’s MultiCultural Center as part of the Cup of Culture ...

Somewhere in Cambridge at a MIT lab, a 15th-century painting depicting a Renaissance infant, once thought too damaged to display, now hangs fully restored. But this transformation didn’t come ...

The Renaissance began in Italy during the 14th century, spreading across Europe by the 17th century. This period saw a revival of classical knowledge, art, and architecture inspired by Ancient ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a pair of "sensational" ornately carved marble artifacts depicting cherubs that are thought to date to the 15th century. The marble pieces were found in Visegrád, a ...

The penis started out 'rather small' in the 15th century Renaissance, stayed that way for a long time, and grew significantly on contemporary canvases You can save this article by registering for ...

Two paintings and a sculpture from the 15th century, looted by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945 from German Jews, were returned to the heirs of the original owners on Tuesday.