Visit Treia, a tiny hilltop town in the Marche region of Italy, and any local will tell you proudly that the town is known for “bracciale.” Visit in the run-up to August, and you’ll see signs ...

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, ...

IN these two volumes 1 the author presents his study of the Italian literature of the Renaissance, to which his previous works on the political history and the fine arts of the same period were ...

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 ...

The Italian art police still don’t know who took the brilliantly illuminated manuscript page from a Franciscan friary, and ...

What is Cleopatra, born in 69 B.C., doing in an exhibition titled “Strong Women in Renaissance Italy”? And why do the Queen of Sheba (10th century B.C.), Judith (sixth century B.C.), Salome and Mary ...