If you’re a huge fan of Renaissance art, you should definitely take a trip to Florence, Naples or Rome. There are many ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis A selection of the bounty from ...

a specialist in Italian Renaissance art. "Spend time with the masterpieces, examine them closely and come back again." "The Uffizi Gallery during White Night Festival." Courtesy of Flickr user ...

PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo The painting, "Rest on the Flight into Egypt," by Italian Renaissance artist Titian could fetch almost $32 million when it goes to auction in July The artwork was ...

Experts believe there is a fresco painted by Leonardo Da Vinci hidden behind a later one by Giorgio Vasari after pigments were found matching his work.

When they first were revealed, the frescoes in the San Brizio Chapel of the majestic cathedral in Orvieto, Italy, both awed visitors and shocked them. The realistic scenes (1499-1504), portraying ...

A provincial museum in northern France has unveiled a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters of the Italian Renaissance, Lavinia Fontana, but which had languished for decades ...

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

Italian researcher Isabella Dalla Ragione has a most unusual job. An “arboreal archaeologist,” Dalla Ragione scours ...

With its implication that the young woman isn’t as chaste as she should be, the marriage-prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative ...

Taking the train from Rome to Naples, you’ll find yourself in a city with a unique charm and energy. Naples is home to the ...

A provincial museum in northern France showed off a picture now attributed to one of the greatest women painters, Lavinia ...