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 great Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli is best known for painted works such as Primavera (c. 1477–82) and The Birth of Venus (c. 1485–86), which hang in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, but a new ...

A fearsome device called the "scythed chariot" stands at the entrance to "Da Vinci Machines," an exhibition of 60 reproductions of the inventions of Italian Renaissance engineer, scientist and artist ...

An ongoing exhibition at the College of William and Mary's Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, brings seven of Michelangelo's few surviving sketches to light in the United States for ...

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