Partly damaged by the catastrophic 1966 flood of the Arno, Michelangelo's Florence tombstone just got a $118,000 restoration.

A show at the Louvre expands our understanding of the Florentine father of Western painting, who brought a revelatory ...

While immuring wives in walls is strictly outlawed (and largely apocryphal), the practice of hiding things behind sheetrock ...

The Renaissance, as a wall label in Reimagining the Renaissance reminds us, began in Italy six centuries ago but its ...

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Famous globally, the Uffizi Gallery boasts a rich repository of Italian Renaissance art. The grandiose Florentine building ...

The medieval city of Siena is a treasure trove of Renaissance art, which is the focus of a new exhibition at the National Gallery. Michael Hodges heads to Tuscany to experience the magic for himself ...

Three experts weigh in on the architectural style that defined Europe for centuries and continues to inspire buildings today ...

March 6 is an important date in Italian Renaissance art history as Michelangelo was born 550 years ago and a special ceremony ...

Ever since the virulently pro-Florentine 16th-century artist and writer Giorgio Vasari drastically downplayed Siena’s importance, art historians have been giving Florence the credit for starting ...

Giorgio Vasari, Descent from the Cross, ca. 1550, Pen, ink wash & chalk on paper, Purchase through the gift of James Junius Goodwin, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford. In acquiring both ...