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

Six sculptures in particular, each with its own personality and name, were installed in Rome’s center around the time of the Renaissance and quickly became sites to express political discontent.

Statues of sphinxes at the entrance of the ... If so, Orsini’s process was similar to that of the Renaissance’s greatest sculptor, Michelangelo, who described his work as liberating figures ...

She said the statue was created by Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Renaissance master who painted the Sistine Chapel and etched David out of marble before his 1564 death. She learned this from her ...

with one parent calling the statue "pornographic". The incident has left Florentines and experts on Renaissance art bewildered. The David is considered a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance and ...