This drama-documentary series offers an account of three of Italy’s monumental artists—Leonardo, Raphael and, as played by ...

Florence, Italy, may be known for its Renaissance art and romantic old-world charm, but now there’s a bold new reason to book ...

Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man is a mysterious treasure of Renaissance art. A dentist believes he may have uncovered one ...

There are around 2,000 Renaissance drawings in the Royal Collection, mostly amassed during the reign of Charles II, including show-stopping sheets from Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks and ...

Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty season 1 is the new BBC documentary series made in collaboration with PBS.

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.

Greek mythology sparked the Renaissance, transforming art from religious instruction to profound explorations of human ...

A period of immense artistic and cultural growth that ushered out the Middle Ages, forever changing the world in the process, the Renaissance began in the Florentine Republic in the 14 th century, ...

A wandering lobster and a sturdy ostrich feature among the 150 chalk, metalpoint and ink drawings on show at Drawing The Italian Renaissance, at the King's Gallery, Buckingham Palace.Created by ...

Raphael’s chalk drawing The Three Graces (ca. 1517–18) was made in preparation for a fresco, and is one of the few Renaissance drawings made after a nude female model.

Drawing, it suggests, isn’t a rarefied activity. A young lad dressed in a cap and pointed slippers sits hunched over a sheet of paper at work on a drawing. Beside him a dog is curled up fast asleep.