A masterpiece of the Bolognese Renaissance has returned to the city of its birth for the first time in 300 years. The exhibition at Bologna’s Palazzo Fava had previously closed early due to the ...

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

The most versatile painting family in Italian history was the Carracci of 16th century Bologna, two brothers and a cousin who burst on the post-Renaissance scene as tireless and talented jacks-of ...

The critical receptions of Guido Reni, Giovanni Andrea Sirani, and Elisabetta Sirani suggest that in seventeenth-century Bologna, technical brilliance was consistently valued more highly than ...

This same vibrant era was also home to Bologna's uniquely regulated sex work industry. So what was life like for the sex workers of Renaissance Italy?

The Baroque-era painter Annibale Carracci — underpaid during his lifetime and under-appreciated for centuries after his death — is enjoying a posthumous renaissance in his native Italy. What ...

Art History professor Steven Stowell gave a presentation called Sacred Art at the Intersection of the Miracoulous and the Scientific: A Case Study on Sexual Responses and Religious Images in ...