In a rare convergence of military technology and maritime archaeology, a French Navy underwater drone operating off the southern coast near Saint-Tropez has located the deepest shipwreck ever ...

This is why I titled my last book Voices from the Italian Renaissance. I especially like to read their notebooks, ... the daughter of a gondolier testifies in court about domestic abuse; to get a tax ...

Immortalized by Leonardo da Vinci in a 15th-century portrait now housed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Ginevra de’ Benci was a celebrated beauty of the Italian Renaissance.

One of the fun parts of a Renaissance faire is taking on an alternate persona, and Vincent and her husband pretend to be Italian merchants from the Republic of Venice in the 1600s. She said some ...

Similarly, those wealthy Renaissance families, including Florence’s Strozzi, Medici, and Rucellai families, were once mere bankers, merchants, and dye makers. With their newfound wealth, they ...

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A period of immense artistic and cultural growth that ushered out the Middle Ages, forever changing the world in the process, the Renaissance began in the Florentine Republic in the 14 th century, ...

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If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity.