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.

Urbino, in the Marche region of Italy, was built by Federico da Montefeltro in the 15th century. Today, it looks the same as it did in its Renaissance heyday.

Basically, classicism has always been strongly concerned with the freestanding column and the pediment, and has paid close attention to order, symmetry and hierarchy.

The work of the the Roman writer Lucretius was lost to the world for more than a thousand years. When his poem “De Rerum Natura” was rediscovered in the Renaissance, Lucretius’s ideas slowly ...

FOR centuries “Mannerism” has been a dirty word in the art historian’s book, meaning “in the manner of” —or something akin to copycat. Renaissance enthusiasts use it to describe the ...

Rarely do the Renaissance and radicality meet. At the Hoxton’s new Florence residence, that rarity is reality. The hotel’s in-house interior design team, AIME Studio, collaborated with Lev ...

1911 Capitol Hill house for sale for $2.6 million. The home — a mix of Renaissance classicism, Romanesque Revival and Beaux-Arts — was designed by noted architect Clement A. Didden and his son ...

The Italian Renaissance. NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED Last evening in the Fogg Art Museum, Professor Moore gave the first of his series of illustrated lectures on the Fine Arts of the Renaissance.

Sometimes it’s the sleepers that stay with you. In “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” a sprawling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was a watercolor still ...

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.

Boilerplate is safe box office, and we’ve gotten our share lately. So it’s great that the Guggenheim Museum is giving us the opposite in its major fall exhibition, “Chaos and Classicism: Art ...

Part 1 One of the reasons I refuse to be interviewed by newspapers, or on television, is that they always ask inane questions like: what is your favorite book? How is it possible for anyone to ...