Renaissance writers reassessed their history, inventing terms like the Dark Ages — to the eternal chagrin of medievalists — ...

One of the most beautiful paintings in the Art Gallery of NSW is a little panel from the Sienese School attributed to Sano di ...

They were only challenged and improved upon when a new generation of Renaissance doctors were allowed to dissect human bodies. Andreas Vesalius, 1514 - 1564, was the author of influential anatomy ...

as their novel theologies and meditative practices contributed to the iconic “fleshy breakthrough” in late 13th- and 14th-century Italian Renaissance painting. Installation view of selected ...

Spanning from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance in the 14th century, the Middle Ages encompassed a thousand years of social, cultural, and religious upheaval, and — most importantly ...

Titled “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” the show features more than 100 artworks made just before the Italian Renaissance ... arrived on the scene a century later would look so ...

This fall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s highly anticipated “Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300–1350” will trace how an Italian city served as the foundation of a continent-wide artistic ...

The altarpiece consists of an 18th-century painting of John of Nepomuk, a 14th-century Czech priest ... uncovered so far comprises a stunning, Renaissance-era altarpiece. On the central panel ...

Archaeologists excavating Oslo's medieval harbor have unearthed the remnants of a 14th-century gauntlet ... discarded objects from the medieval and Renaissance periods, including shipwrecks ...