It delves into the Royal Collection's seemingly "bottomless pit of art treasures" and raids its extraordinary holdings of works on paper from the Italian Renaissance, most of them collected by ...

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. What were the ...

The Renaissance lasted roughly two centuries. The High Renaissance ... spread of new art and new ideas. The Northern Renaissance wasn't a renaissance in the literal, or Italian, sense, like ...

Artistic ferment bubbled in Italy in the late 1400s and early 1500s, but despite the later idealization of that period as the Renaissance ... a high level of education and to cultivate the arts.

During a first-time visit to Florence, see the Florence Cathedral Il Duomo, Uzzifi, The Palazzo Vecchio, Ponte Vecchio, ...

The pieces that are displayed in the exhibition are sourced from the Royal Collection, which, with near 2,000 sheets, possesses one of the world’s largest collections of Renaissance drawings. Drawing ...

Lavinia Fontana, who lived from 1552-1614, is seen as one of the very first women to make a career out of painting in Western art, and an outstanding representative of the Italian Renaissance ...

He saw the light while running across the 5 Freeway near his mother’s house while high on ... encountered art from the Renaissance and Baroque periods for the first time. The Italian masters ...

Instead, his unpaid army of German Landsknechts, Spanish soldiers, and Italian mercenaries mutinied ... The once-great city, filled with Renaissance art, architecture, and learning, was ravaged.