Art fraud was a common occurrence in the Italian Renaissance. Even a young Michelangelo took part in such a scheme, long ...

Walk through any major art museum’s historical galleries and you’ll likely encounter paintings created with egg tempera, ...

The mathematics underpinning the modern method of elliptic curve cryptography originated with Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi ...

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. What were the ...

The show rightly avoids the bias toward Florence in early Renaissance narratives ... culminating in what art historian Michael Baxandall once called the Period Eye. Other art historians dismiss ...

The curator asked if she could fill the room with Merriweather’s grill sculptures instead as a visible challenge to visitors’ narrow perceptions of renaissance art. “I was like, love that.

These are the Renaissance-era Pavia Tapestries ... Associate Curator of European Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The venue is one of only a handful in the United States that will ...

In this sense, Death of the Reprobate might be a more nuanced way to contextualize the Renaissance era. Sure, there weren’t talking monkeys, but it wasn’t all just art and sculptures.

Most people do think of the Harlem Renaissance as primarily a literary movement, yet so many famous Black artists really flourished during that time period. Paintings from Laura Wheeler Waring ...

This tondo (a circular work of art) is a masterly demonstration of technical skill, conceptual invention and cheeky ambition. Only 9 1/2 inches in diameter, it has exercised an outsize power on ...