A study of painting, sculpture, and architecture in the major artistic centers of Italy (Florence, Rome, Venice, Milan and the Northern Courts) during the 15th and 16th centuries. In addition to ...

Thematically, most art portrayed biblical narratives ... Florence, the seat of the Italian Renaissance, first grew as a wool-producing city involved in a network of Mediterranean and Indian ...

In 1911, a mysterious thief slipped the Mona Lisa out of the Louvre, shocking the world. The disappearance set off a global ...

The Italian Renaissance is, perhaps the most famous period in history. In Caprarola, there is building that embodies all that ...

Lavinia Fontana, who lived from 1552-1614, is seen as one of the very first women to make a career out of painting in Western art, and an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance ...

NEW ALBANY – Sandro Botticelli was an Italian early Renaissance painter. Some of his most famous works include The Birth of ...

Welcome to the first episode of our brand-new Italy series. Hidden in the heart of the Italian countryside lies a breathtaking Renaissance palace, once owned by a wealthy lawyer couple who used it as ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering ... and Etruscan and Roman ruins than for its art. But the painters of Renaissance Italy ...

Faculty specialize in the Italian Renaissance, in modern literature and cinema, and in media and culture. Instructors provide additional expertise in art history, theater, business, and contemporary ...