From the 15th to the 16th century, volumes begin to shrink in size, becoming more manageable and accessible. At the same time, materials also change: wooden plates are replaced by lighter cardboard ...

The House of Medici was an Italian banking family that rose to become one of the most powerful political families … Continue ...

A new exhibition in London traces the evolution of tarot from Renaissance Italy to the present day, with the card designs ...

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

The mural was seen as so revolutionary that it was covered by a false wall only to be rediscovered and exhumed in 1973.

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

A 500-year-old sketch by Leonardo da Vinci has led to the remarkable discovery of hidden tunnels beneath Sforza Castle in ...

The Italian Renaissance artist created groundbreaking depictions of humans at a time when the inner workings of the body ...

Riding the train from Madrid to Almeria, a remote southern province that has become the “latest thing” for travel aficionados ...

The garrison public affairs office translates summaries of local news articles for the convenience of non-Italian speaking community members. The information contained in these summaries is ...

When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the 1970s, one of his favorite pastimes was to rummage through his mother’s ...