Byzantine art had a significant impact on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution of the cultural boom of the early modern ages.

Travel expert Rick Steves deems this Italian city the "Cultural Capital of Europe" due to its rich history and artistic ...

Family identity and professional conformism are as important as any putative Renaissance “individualism” in Iris Origo’s ...

which holds one of the world’s greatest collections of Italian Renaissance drawings. The Renaissance period saw a dramatic transformation in the way that artists worked, with a new-found appreciation ...

At Buckingham Palace’s King’s Gallery, is a show of Italian Renaissance royalty. “Drawing the Italian Renaissance” is filled with masterpieces from the epoch by some of the most famous ...

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael’s captivating works produce a grand scale of awe and occasion that ...

But also how ancient roots mean it’s hard to find any city in Italy, whatever the size, without a compelling historic heart.

From the Prado in Madrid and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to the National Museum of Art in Beijing and the Getty Center in ...