This brief chapter of art history is often overlooked. Now, an exhibition in New York City makes a strong argument for the ...

Florence, the Athens of Italy, had banished the Medici family, after having put them in power, and had just burned Savonarola at the stake, after having regarded him as an idol and a prophet.

Show at the King's Gallery features an 'enormous cache' of works by the likes of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... of papal politics at the height of the Italian Renaissance and during the tumultuous years ...

This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism ... how they viewed their own history, what goals they enunciated, what triumphs they celebrated - in short, he ...

A museum has raised almost £4.5m to save a rare Italian renaissance painting. The Ashmolean Museum, which is part of the ...

In a new exhibition at the King's Gallery, over 160 works will explore how drawing “became the laboratory” for the new ...

This autumn seems to be the season for Old Master Drawings exhibitions! The Fondation Custodia in Paris opened a new show ...

Art and culture being accessible to all is “fundamental”, the Ashmolean Museum director has said, after securing nearly £5 million in funding to save a rare Italian Renaissance painting ... in ...

Buckingham Palace has been home to countless exhibitions that explore the history of the British royal family through art design. And now, an exhibition showcasing the artistic royalty of the Italian ...