As Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez prepare to tie the knot later this summer, their choice of venue is turning heads. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(The Renaissance 'Prince of Painters' made a ... Andrea Pisano’s bronze doors were added in the 14th century. A century later, the design competition for another set of elaborate doors was ...

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 ...

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 influential thinker and writer Douglas Rushkoff was once summoned to an audience with five Silicon Valley billionaires. As he recounts in Survival of the Richest, their concern was impending ...