Groundbreaking statues, paintings, and architecture—humanism in Florence and beyond. Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome. This rebirth of classical culture ...

European paintings of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries tell stories of love, transgression, sacrifice, and redemption that are often based on biblical or mythological narratives, and on the ...

The Renaissance era was one of the most beautiful and out-of-the-world revolutions in the arts arena. Be it unique painting techniques or flourishing artists like da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli ...

This painting is a beautiful example of secular art from the Renaissance. But it is also a bit of a puzzle. Five people, three women and two men, are in a walled garden of red and white roses.

This drama-documentary series offers an account of three of Italy’s monumental artists—Leonardo, Raphael and, as played by ...

Painted Love is at the Holburne Museum, Bath (holburne.org) from Friday; Jill Burke’s How to Be a Renaissance Woman (Wellcome, £25) is out on August 3 Join the conversation Show comments ...

The Minneapolis Institute of Art's exhibition "Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi," opening Oct. 16, brings that sensibility into the present.

Daniel: Isabella says that Renaissance paintings are particularly helpful when trying to identify fruits. Dalla Ragione: Especially from the beginning of 1400 to the middle of 1500, ...

Rick Steves' Europe. Rick Steves’ Europe: Art of the Florentine Renaissance. Season 12 Episode 1207 | 28m 3s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Florence’s bold “rebirth” is powered by the ...