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 Is Having a Renaissance In revisiting early modern European history, artists and designers are finding old ways to address contemporary anxieties.

If the Renaissance was the foundation of our modern world, a foundation for the Renaissance was classical art. Sculptors, painters, and poets alike turned to ancient work for inspiration.

The Moslem followers of Mohammed the Conqueror who triumphantly stormed Constantinople in 1453 were so successful in covering up all traces of Christianity that for almost five centuries Byzantine ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art mounts an almost overwhelmingly ambitious exhibition focused on black art from the 1920s through the ’40s.

The Metropolitan Museum Of Art Is Having A Black Moment With The ‘Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism’ Show Curator Denise Muller revisits a major movement in American art and ...

This Cutting-Edge Encryption Originates in Renaissance Art and Math The mathematics underpinning the modern method of elliptic curve cryptography originated with Renaissance architect Filippo ...

“The Tudors” shows how the English Renaissance was the work of wily leaders and enterprising foreigners. No dynasty has better captured the modern imagination.

Titian painted two versions of the powerful Archbishop Filippo Archinto. In one, he’s slightly obscured, and both the reason and the technique are fascinating.

Beyoncé's Grammy-nominated 'Renaissance' is a thotty and ethereal work of art : Pop Culture Happy Hour Beyoncé's Renaissance is a joyful, sonic immersion made for dance floors of all kinds. The ...

A new art exhibit at the Spelman College Museum of Art reimagines Renaissance-era creation stories with Black religions and history at the center.