Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the most influential artists in world history. Matt Elton explores the creator ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

the Greco-Roman god of wine famously affiliated with grapes, a character revived in visual art by Renaissance artists. Botanists have identified around five hundred species of plants and flowers ...

Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s masterpiece captures the folly of humanity’s desire to reach heaven on its own terms.

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

Tucked above depictions of Adam and Eve, the haunting images of Cain and Abel in the Ghent Altarpiece underscore the wages of ...

In ‘The Invention of British Art’, Bendor Grosvenor explores how the ‘commissioning classes’ have long influenced the making ...

Two years ago, when the black Irish comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin” was nominated for nine Academy Awards, host Jimmy ...

The $3 billion Project Imagine will include three new patient towers, enhanced surgical and emergency services, as well as a ...

For Demond Melancon, a master bead artist and big chief of the Young Seminole Hunters in New Orleans, the art of beading is ...

Ms. Smith was among the country’s most renowned Native artists, crafting pieces that incorporated Indigenous images and ...