When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown ...

The influence of Byzantine artistic traditions continued and lasted for centuries, even as Renaissance art took on its own unique personality and dominated ... despite their clear evolution with their ...

If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity. What were the ...

Ecce Homo, a painting by Italian Renaissance master Titian, has been found to be hiding a mysterious portrait of an unknown ...

"Microscopic observations of the craqueleure of the painting allowed us to document the stratigraphy of the canvas and to detect, through the cracks, the existence of different pi ...

This article dives deep into the distinct characteristics ... and functional design, while Italian Majolica showcases the grandeur and complexity of Renaissance art. Beyond the technical ...

The study of such canonical authors as Dante, Petrarca, and Boccaccio, and the masters of the Italian Renaissance (Ariosto, Machiavelli ... from a broad range of disciplinary and critical perspectives ...

Instead, they are 16th-century Italian fantasies of beauty, recreating an ideal that was celebrated across art and literature of the era ... Imagery of two clasped hands is found on Renaissance rings ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the peak of summer, Florence, Ravenna and Bologna are crowded with tourists, but nearby is another beautiful Italian Renaissance ...

By Siddhartha Mitter A jury found them guilty of conspiring as part of a crew to steal art, sports memorabilia ... traces the evolution of tarot from Renaissance Italy to the present day, with ...