The Renaissance, often hailed as one of the most transformative periods in human history, gave rise to an unparalleled explosion of creativity. For anyone who’s stood before the Sistine Chapel or ...

Research by a UA optics professor suggests some of the Renaissance’s grand masters had a little help with their paintings. Charles Falco, an optical science professor, said his research shows painters ...

The Italian Renaissance painter’s 16th-century work inside the cathedral in Parma is a dizzying illusionistic achievement, ...

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) debuted its latest exhibition on Oct. 16: “Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi.” The exhibition marks the first collaboration ...

The media blog Fishbowl New York is reporting that the lead paragraph of a July 25 New York Times article by Carol Vogel bears a striking similarity to the Wikipedia entry for its subject, the ...

In the galleries of The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I stood just feet away from a room filled with large and magnificent paintings by Aaron ...

Renaissance artists freely mixed painting, sculpture and jewelry making, largely because they depended on patrons for a living and their patrons wanted all three. Today’s painters and sculptors, free ...

Christine Panyard, a retired psychologist of 43 years and parishioner of the Church of the Divine Child in Dearborn, Mich., is seen in this undated photo. She’s holding a copy of her latest book, ...

Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may have cracked one using chemistry and physics. Around the turn of the 15th century in Italy ...