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 ...

Buckingham Palace has been home to countless exhibitions that explore the history of the British royal family through art design. And now, an exhibition showcasing the artistic royalty of the Italian ...

Painting and sculpture may fetch the highest prices and become the most renowned artworks, but the humble medium of drawing has been crucially important in art history, if often operating behind the ...

What would the Renaissance be without its mysteries and tantalizing gossip? In the spirit of Georgio Vasari's original Renaissance tabloid, The Lives of the Artist, we've compiled a list of the latest ...

A time dominated by the likes of Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Botticelli, the Italian Renaissance was a stunning period for art. A new website from Oxford University Press’s Grove Art Online ...

Focusing on the artistic innovations of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, this exhibition makes apparent why contemporaries could celebrate a rebirth or Renaissance of the art of classical ...

Buckingham Palace has been home to countless exhibitions that explore the history of the British royal family through art design. And now, an exhibition showcasing the artistic royalty of the Italian ...

Curator Marietta Cambareri opened her lecture at the McMullen Museum of Art with an image of an art exhibit in its early stages: a room scattered with miscellaneous carts, shelving, and flatbeds.

"Drawing is both the most central and the most elusive of the key artistic methods," said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. It is central because all art starts with it: we've all had a go at ...

Some of the most magnificent art masterpieces in history are on display in Minneapolis—but only for a limited time. Thanks to a rare partnership between the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, and the ...

Should Italian museums return works of Renaissance art to the churches for which they were originally made? Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi gallery in Florence, has been making that case—and ...

PARIS, France (CBS Newspath/Reuters/WKRC) - A previously unknown drawing by Michelangelo will be offered for sale by Christie's that they expect to fetch 30 million pounds ($39.48 million), the ...