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.

Renaissance Artists Raphael and Dürer Were Kind of Obsessed With Each Other The two men carried on a pen pal correspondence until Raphael's death. Left: Albrecht Dürer, Self-Portrait in a Fur ...

The portly, balding sculptor-turned-architect must have drawn a few curious gazes as he set up a complicated painting apparatus in the corner of a Renaissance-era piazza. He planted his instrument ...