It’s hard to put into words how much we enjoyed visiting Florence at the end of our most recent trip to Italy. Our ...

With a long-lost and recently discovered painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, ‘Mary Magdalen in Ecstasy’, on ...

The Argentinian pontiff was a powerful progressive voice in world politics, the first Jesuit priest to be spiritual leader of ...

It seems like humans always need to know who or what is the best in any category. Renaissance people were no different. A ...

While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo ...

The Italian Renaissance is, perhaps the most famous period in history. In Caprarola, there is building that embodies all that ...

World Art Day, observed on April 15 to commemorate Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday, is an international celebration of artistic ...

In 1594, a newly ordained young cardinal, Odoardo Farnese – the recent beneficiary of a tremendous fortune – commissioned the ...

Recent protests on racial justice have also questioned the portrayal of Jesus as a white man. An art historian explains how ...

the Raphael Rooms and Loggia and the Borgia Apartment. Originally a residence of cardinals and later popes, Palazzo Venezia is today home to an eclectic collection of pieces from the Middle Ages and ...

The story of how tarot evolved from a Renaissance card game to a ubiquitous ... But at the same time, the cards entered the mainstream. German art historian Aby Warburg, the namesake of the ...

On April 6th, we celebrate the Raphae’s birthday, one of the greatest masters of the Italian Renaissance: Born in 1483 in Urbino, Italy, Raphael Sanzio was popular for his divine ... Read more The ...