exploring the great palaces of the Renaissance with an art historian while discovering exactly how art and power went hand in hand during 1500s Rome. We'll spend the first part of our time together in ...

New biography of Boston-born Alexander, who made her name in Florence with her delicate illustrations of Italian folk ballads ...

Greek painter El Greco is one of the best known artists in the history of Western art, as his works have influenced countless painters.

Art and sculpture, wine and pasta, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Vatican City and Venice are just some of what Italy is famous ...

From Renaissance Milanese court painter Bonifacio Bembo to the Surrealists and even contemporary artist Claire Tabouret (who ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

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 ...

And even universities, a bastion of progressive ideology, are suddenly backing away a bit, or treading carefully. Almost all ...

The 16th century Renaissance-era painting was taken from ... Paintings by Solario, who worked across Italy in the early 16th century, have sold at auction for several hundred thousand dollars.

The fork’s journey from reviled symbol of moral decay to utilitarian instrument is a story of power, privilege, and ...

They let us see the new world that artists and museum visitors found themselves in. Renaissance art was usually closely linked to power. Powerful people paid artists to create artworks which portrayed ...