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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

So clearly it was learned early on in human history that art as personal adornment enhanced your status. Modern politicians use political techniques invented by rulers of old, but instead of paint ...

Following more than five decades of repression under the Assad regime, these artists are seizing the moment of cultural ...

Famous globally, the Uffizi Gallery boasts a rich repository of Italian Renaissance art. The grandiose Florentine building was commissioned in 1560 by Cosimo I de’ Medici, known as Cosimo the Great ...

The exciting new groundbreaking book by George M. Johnson, "Flamboyants: the Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known," is an empowering book written specifically for high school students, but one ...

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 ...