Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the ...

A new exhibition at Buckingham Palace features over 150 Renaissance drawings by masters like Raphael, Michelangelo, and ...

From muscle-bound castles to lavish manor houses, the world is filled with fine stately homes – and many of them happen to be ...

When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown ...

Ecce Homo, a painting by Italian Renaissance master Titian, has been found to be hiding a mysterious portrait of an unknown ...

Leaders of the free world, titans of industry and notorious gangsters often share a common interest—subscribing to the ...

Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted one portrait, high-tech imaging tools have revealed a secret — another, earlier ...

Scientists uncover hidden maths depicted in tree branch patterns in da Vinci and Mondrian artwork - Study offers perspective to ‘appreciate and recreate beauty of trees’ in art, scientists say ...

Under the Sforza castle in Milan, long forgotten underground passages have been revealed thanks to modern technology. These structures, described in Leonardo da Vinci's sketches, shed light on a ...

Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...

Pueblo officials are moving ever closer to opening North America’s first-ever Leonardo da Vinci Museum. The city recently ...