The Renaissance, often hailed as one of the most transformative periods in human history, gave rise to an unparalleled explosion of creativity. For anyone who’s stood before the Sistine Chapel or ...

In a New York City lab microbial geneticist Norberto Gonzalez-Juarbe leaned over a fragile Renaissance drawing and gently rubbed its surface — front and back — with a cotton swab, the same kind once ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wild visions: detail of Andromeda Freed by Perseus (with Perseus Slaying the Dragon) by Piero di Cosimo - VCG Wilson/Corbis via ...

For a journey into the essence of Renaissance art, look no further than this exhibition featuring more than 50 masterpieces ...

Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art uses the cost of a cow to consider the worth of 16th-century objects. “Bird” (German, Nuremberg, 1580, ...

The recent restoration of this painting of the dead Christ, now on view at the Morgan Library & Museum, highlights its ...

If you show a picture of Michelangelo’s statue of David, one of the most familiar works in art history, to a room full of schoolchildren they may smirk or giggle over the figure’s naked body. It only ...

The University of Wisconsin School of Human Ecology unveiled its newest exhibition, ‘Remaking the Renaissance,’ curated by Textile Specialist and Research director for the Helen Louise Allen Textile ...

Curator Marietta Cambareri opened her lecture at the McMullen Museum of Art with an image of an art exhibit in its early stages: a room scattered with miscellaneous carts, shelving, and flatbeds.

Originally shot in 1972, ‘Once Upon a Time in Harlem’ gathers creative giants of the era for an intimate discussion at Duke ...

Byzantine art had a significant impact on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution of the cultural boom of the early modern ages.