Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns stops by TODAY to discuss his new documentary, “Leonardo da Vinci,” his first film that covers a non-American topic, and chronicles the life and work of the 15th ...

A rare early masterpiece by the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico has been acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help ...

There are not many museums in this country where a coherent story of 15th-century Italian art can be told and this helps the Ashmolean cement its place as one of them.” ...

Ashmolean saves Fra Angelico masterpiece for the public, launching the museum as world-leading centre for the study of ...

Ken Burns has told me time and again, in various interviews about his various films, that all his films are about the same ...

Beside him a dog is curled up fast asleep. This is the down-to-earth subject of a 15th-century sketch by an unidentified Florentine artist that appears at the start of this exhibition at The King’s ...

Museums are lucky if they receive either a large collection of valuable artworks or a big check. Getting both at the […] ...

Tavitian Foundation: a trove of 331 works by revered European artists of the 15th through the 19th centuries ... including the 16th-century Italian painter Jacopo da Pontormo (“Portrait ...

Beside him a dog is curled up fast asleep. This is the down-to-earth subject of a 15th-century sketch by an unidentified Florentine artist that appears at the start of this exhibition at The King ...

If you want a honeymoon oozing romance, seclusion and charm all steeped in ancient history, Tenuta di Murlo is the place for ...