The Renaissance polymath Leon Battista Alberti asked his contemporaries to consider that painting is grounded in mathematics, ...

In the heart of the Po Valley, Ferrara's palaces of pink marble and red brick, straight streets and humanist frescoes combine ...

During the Renaissance, Italian city-states contributed greatly to the region's wealth. Families with affluence were able to support artistic movements and scientists, ... It was the rise of the ...

Italian and American scientists will exhume the remains of 49 members of the Medici clan, the powerful Renaissance merchant family that ruled Tuscany, to study what they ate and what illnesses ...

Donatello: Italian Renaissance star on show. ... The son of a wool merchant, Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi is believed to have been born around 1386 in Florence, Italy, ...

Key Italian Renaissance Artists Featured in the Series. Read on below to discover the moments and creations that defined Michelangelo, Leonarda da Vinci and Raphael. Michelangelo.

Spread across three locations - the grand gallery, the chapel room, and the clock room - the exhibition titled "Naples in Paris" features nearly 70 artworks from the Italian museum, which will ...