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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...