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 ...

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 ...

Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may have cracked one using chemistry and physics. Around the turn of the 15th century in Italy ...

The San Domenico Museum in Forlì, Italy, is hosting a monumental exhibition, “Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance.” The show brings together 360 works of art, borrowed from major European, American, ...

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, ...

Focusing on the artistic innovations of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, this exhibition makes apparent why contemporaries could celebrate a rebirth or Renaissance of the art of classical ...

Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty premieres on PBS on July 8, 2025. The series is narrated by Sophie Okonedo, and features Charles Dance as Michelangelo, Jonny Glynn as Leonardo da Vinci and ...

In the galleries of The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I stood just feet away from a room filled with large and magnificent paintings by Aaron ...

In revisiting early modern European history, artists and designers are finding old ways to address contemporary anxieties. By Rachel Wetzler The Algerian Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz’s new film, ...

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

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is displaying “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” beginning on Feb. 25 until July 28, featuring some 160 works by artists of the Harlem Renaissance and ...