Simone Martini, “Christ on the Cross,” detail (1340); Fogg Art Museum ... “fleshy breakthrough” in late 13th- and 14th-century Italian Renaissance painting. Installation view of selected ...

Something The Mona Lisa, David, and The School of Athens all have in common is they represent a way of thinking that was ...

The once-popular idea of an African renaissance is now almost forgotten. The African renaissance first advanced by South Africa supposedly as a slogan leading its post-apartheid political and economic ...

Wikimedia, CC BY-SA The mere mention of Leonardo da Vinci evokes genius. We know him as a polymath whose interests spanned ...

From stunning art museums to breathtaking religious buildings, here are the things you need to see and do in Spain before you ...

But Dante wanted his poem to be widely accessible and was confident that the brilliance of his poetic art would make his ...

Now, for the first time, his collection is being showcased in a solo museum exhibition, titled “The Art of Jewellery ... by Renaissance master Valerio Belli in the 14th century.

Pseudo-archaeology has played a big role in constructing mythical histories that feed into imagined pasts that ultimately ...

Above, a 14th-century pharmaceutical container made in Damascus. Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine ... medical text in Europe well into the Renaissance. The 12th century saw the ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to ...

Emerging after World War I, the original Art Deco era embodied a spirit of creativity, freedom and innovation. With modernity and exuberance on full display, the 1920s and early ’30s became one ...