THE political changes in China during the last decade have had two opposite effects on the intellectual sides of Chinese life. The Revolution of 1911 gave a powerful stimulus which enabled the ...

Renaissance architecture developed as part of the rebirth of classicism in Florence, Italy, circa 1400. It evolved over the next 200 years as it spread throughout Italy and then Europe.

Art History Long-Lost Renaissance Masterpiece Rediscovered in Pompeii. Restoration work has confirmed the attribution to Andrea Mantegna ahead of the painting's display at the Vatican Museums in Rome.