The painter of the Mona Lisa, a pure genius of the Renaissance, sketched in his notebooks objects, machines, and systems that ...

Researchers discovered that our ability to recognize trees in art is linked to a mathematical principle called the branch ...

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A rare portrait by Bernardino de’ Conti, a peer of Leonardo da Vinci, set a record at Sotheby's Master Paintings auction.

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a network of underground passages at the Sforza Castle in Milan, Italy. These passages, sketched ...

A series of underground passages have been found under Sforza Castle in Milan by experts at the city's Polytechnic University ...

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

Lapis lazuli, valued like gold, has a rich 6,000-year history. Its primary source is Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, where ...

This suit, most often named "Coins" or "Pentacles", is a symbol for a magical talisman that represented wealth or potential.

Featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and others, a show at the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace highlights the period’s works on paper—which, though frequently preparatory, stand as ...