Among the many things I love about Italy is how the Renaissance can be spliced into your travels. Imagine: In Florence, you ...

The 20th-century art historian Kenneth Clark made a distinction between the “naked,” meaning unclothed and ashamed, and the “nude,” meaning the body in its most beautiful form. Most people today use ...

He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he developed a respect for restraint, balance, line, and the ...

In this short Today in History video, I talk about what happened on 1 November 1512, when Michelangelo’s paintings on the ...

HENI Talks has announced the launch of Stories of Art, a new weekly podcast bringing together art historian Dr James Fox and ...

Sublime Poetry,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Step inside the world of the Renaissance and discover how Florence, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo shaped history ...

Rome has been called the city of domes. The greatest of them sits majestically atop St. Peter’s Basilica, the largest and grandest church in the world. By law, no building in Rome’s city center may ...

And the steps of The Met are the ultimate status symbol. “They were filming it here,” said Calica, a 15-year-old “Gossip Girl” devotee who goes to school in Queens, “so it was my dream to see it.” ...

A new exhibition at the Louvre in Paris pits Michelangelo and Rodin together to explore "Living Bodies" and the artistic links between the great masters who lived three and half centuries apart.View o ...

Out of all the legendary musical beefs, the fable rivalry between Mozart and Antonio Salieri is our greatest hit ...

To find Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) and Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), two of the greatest sculptors in the history of art, in one exhibition at the Louvre is bound to be an experience. The ...