The Medici family was a powerful and influential dynasty that dominated the political, economic, and cultural life of Florence and much of Italy from the 15th to the 18th century. Known for their ...

Frassati, born in 1901 in Turin, Italy, died at the young age of 24, after contracting polio, 100 years ago this July. A ...

The Assumption of the Virgin’ – which belongs to the Art Institute of Chicago – was last displayed in the Madrid art gallery ...

Anne Bedrick is a local artist who has been helping grow the art community at the Perez Art District in Cathedral City.

“Francis de Sales reconciles Renaissance humanism with the mystical ... In 1923, Pope Pius XI declared Saint Francis de Sales the patron of Catholic writers. This decision stems from the ...

At 16 he became the leader of the Chicago Area Skinheads, later a white supremacist punk band. But when Christian Picciolini ...

In the Napoleonic Wars, Britain had a secret weapon. It wasn’t a new sort of ship or a better gun or different training regime. Britain did have those things. Her men were more disciplined, more ...

Catherine the Great: individual empress, mother of the Russian Renaissance, and the longest-ruling female monarch of Russia.

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

He added, "At Tauck we speak of our 'One Global Family,' which starts with our loyal guests, and we're grateful beyond words ...

The role of the ultra-wealthy has morphed from one of shared social responsibility and patronage to the freewheeling ...

The shorts include Final Flight of the Osiris, The Second Renaissance, Kid's Story, Program, World Record, Beyond, A Detective Story and Matriculated.