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

This was an urgent question in 1557. Forty years after Martin Luther had pinned his theses to the church door, the Counter-Reformation had resulted in scrutiny of irreverent and especially erotic art.

RENAISSANCE: THE BLOOD AND THE BEAUTY Premieres Tuesdays, July 8-22, 2025 at 9:00 pm on PBS and Streaming on PBS.org and the ...

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.

Rebirth and reform in Renaissance Italy. At the beginning of C. S. Lewis’s novel The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the Pevensie children are astonished by how real a painting of a ship on the ...

The museum primarily showcases Italian Renaissance art from between 1300 and 1600, but let’s be honest – you’re there to see that perfectly chiseled hunk of marble that somehow looks more ...

She uses archives, Renaissance paintings and a car she drives across the Italian countryside. Her passion isn’t just cultural. She says our global food supply may well be at stake.

In ‘Perspectives,’ art and politics clash in Renaissance Italy. In Laurent Binet’s new novel, Michelangelo and others grapple with the fallout from a scandalous painting.