New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters ... essays explores whether this early play was monastic or secular, its Anglo-Norman character, and the text's musical provenance. This book ...

In new book, UChicago’s Ada Palmer explores popular misunderstandings of the Renaissance and historical myths used for ...

The Renaissance, as a wall label in Reimagining the Renaissance reminds us, began in Italy six centuries ago but its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Famous globally, the Uffizi Gallery boasts a rich repository of Italian Renaissance art. The grandiose Florentine building ...

art historians have been giving Florence the credit for starting the Renaissance. But as will become clear in a revelatory new show at the National Gallery in London, featuring artists like Duccio ...

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 ...