While its title — Italian Renaissance Learning Resources — is painfully dull, the site gives some compelling insight into the 14th to 16th century as a span of changing art and society.

The fresco is important because it’s one of the earliest examples of Italian Renaissance art being imported to Spain, said Fernando Lopez, an art historian who works at the Valencia government ...

If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity.

Among cities sacked in the so-called Italian Wars were Naples, Brescia, Prato, Pavia and, in perhaps the most frenzied orgy of carnage and looting, Rome in 1527. Nor was warfare the only source of ...

The King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace aims to raise the repute of works on paper with “Drawing the Italian Renaissance,” a major exhibition of examples from one of the most famed periods ...

Drawing the Italian Renaissance brings together the works of more than 80 Italian ... tapestry and costume, as well as “rare examples of drawings created as finished works of art in their ...

Far from simply another opportunity to admire the beautiful people, 'The Renaissance Nude' at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles presents timely conversations carried over through the centuries.

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (CBS) - This is the final weekend to get up to Bucks County to see one of the premier art exhibits in the Philadelphia area this year, a virtual who's who of Italian Renaissance ...