During the Renaissance, the Italian diet consisted primarily of wine and bread, with a small portion of meat (preferably a type of foul, because birds lived closer to the heavens when they took flight ...

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.

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 ...

With a major exhibition taking place at the V&A from next month, Renaissance Art is being given, well, a bit of a renaissance (‘scuse the pun) for a modern-day audience. Michelozzo, An Adoring Angel, ...

The pieces that are displayed in the exhibition are sourced from the Royal Collection, which, with near 2,000 sheets, possesses one of the world’s largest collections of Renaissance drawings. Drawing ...

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 ...

What’s old is new again in a special exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art connecting Italian early modern art with contemporary fashions from Versace, Armani, Ferragamo and others. Hoop skirts, ...

The purchase of a roundel for $23 million is the museum’s second largest ever, and fulfills a former curator’s dream after losing out in a 2003 auction. By Colin Moynihan Nearly 20 years ago, a ...