Empowered by new wealth and inspired by the humanist fascination with the individual, patrons of art in the early period of the Renaissance began asserting themselves into commissioned works of ...

In new book, UChicago’s Ada Palmer explores popular misunderstandings of the Renaissance and historical myths used for ...

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection ... This book examines the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century engagement with a crucial part of Britain's past, the period ...

In the early 1300s, the Tuscan hilltop city of Siena lived through a great period of prosperity ... hieratic grace" of Byzantine-influenced art and concocted a new style, characterised by ...

Historian Alexander Bevilacqua joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultural rebirth which came to be known as The Renaissance. When did The Renaissance begin? What was it ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The 16th century was an age of exploration in all senses of the term, a period when colossal advances in ...

This is frequently found in Renaissance music. A false relation is a type of dissonance that occurs in Renaissance music. It is a harmonic clash that happens when a note in one part is played or ...

Explore the history and culture of the early modern period. What was life like in the age of da Vinci ... What ideas underlay such important moments in history as the Renaissance, the Enlightenment ...

So clearly it was learned early on in human history that art as personal adornment enhanced your status. Modern politicians use political techniques invented by rulers of old, but instead of paint ...