Massive and unusually elongated, “The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas” depicts the 13th-century saint throned in a golden sun, ...

How a rarely-seen drawing of the Three Graces by Raphael reveals the era's ideas about nudity, modesty, shame – and the ...

For his first non-American subject, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns chose Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci.

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Monday, Nov. 18 and 19, 2024 from 8 - 10 p.m. / PBS app. This is a two-part, four-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, ...

Ken Burns has told me time and again, in various interviews about his various films, that all his films are about the same ...

Their latest revelation? The Renaissance master may have included a woman battling breast cancer, which is typically mistaken for a modern disease. Eight European art historians and medical ...

Paintings, ceramics, photography, fashion, furniture and more: The V&A Museum is a treasure trove of art and design. Here’s ...

The naked woman, who is wearing only a blue headscarf, was brought to life by the Renaissance figure ... 1508 when Michelangelo painted the fresco, a mural painting technique that daubs water ...

Some believe the basilica on Vatican Hill was built over the martyred bones of the apostle Peter—but is that true? After ...