Among the many things I love about Italy is how the Renaissance can be spliced into your travels. Imagine: In Florence, you ...

A time dominated by the likes of Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Botticelli, the Italian Renaissance was a stunning period for art. A new website from Oxford University Press’s Grove Art Online ...

During the Renaissance, the Italian diet consisted primarily of wine and bread, with a small portion of meat (preferably a type of foul, because birds lived closer to the heavens when they took flight ...

In January of 1940, Stephen C. Clark, chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), received an irate letter. “As a visitor of the Museum of Modern Art I object very ...

Curator Marietta Cambareri opened her lecture at the McMullen Museum of Art with an image of an art exhibit in its early stages: a room scattered with miscellaneous carts, shelving, and flatbeds.

In 1399, a crowd gathered in the Tuscan city of Pisa, even though people understood that a plague ravaging the area was contagious. Devotees traveled from town to town and carried a crucifix—a ...

The Italian Renaissance great is known for his vibrantly-colored sculptures. A work by Luca della Robbia. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Della Robbia’s groundbreaking techniques were ...

Years ago, I decided that the greatest need in our country was art… We were a very young country and had very few opportunities of seeing beautiful things, works of art… So, I determined to make it my ...

The pieces that are displayed in the exhibition are sourced from the Royal Collection, which, with near 2,000 sheets, possesses one of the world’s largest collections of Renaissance drawings. Drawing ...

Editor’s Note: For more on Italian food, watch new CNN Original Series “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy” on CNNgo. The signs of the Renaissance are everywhere in Italy. Grand piazzas and palazzos.

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