Explore the historic charm of Padua, Italy, with breathtaking drone footage capturing its medieval streets, Renaissance squares, and iconic landmarks. Soar over the stunning Prato della Valle, one ...

WHEN Chris and Suzanne Sharp conceived of their Banners of Persuasion tapestry project, the premise was fairly straightforward. “In the Renaissance people would commission an artist to do a ...

In a beautiful and ambitious exhibition currently on view at the Columbus Museum of Art, “Raphael—The Power of Renaissance Images: The Dresden Tapestries and Their Impact,” a thoughtful ...

The Battle of Pavia tapestries commemorate Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's 1525 victory over French King Francis I during the 16th-century Italian Wars.

Using In the time of Michelangelo, royalty once spent much more on tapestries than on having their portraits painted. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has brought together some of the finest ...

Originally designed to prevent drafts in unheated castles, through the use of silk and gold thread, tapestries evolved during the Renaissance to become giant wall paintings that could cost as much ...

The tapestry gives an altogether different impression of sub-Saharan Africans from that encountered in European art of the period.

It has been 25 years since the Worcester Art Museum has made the Renaissance tapestry "Last Judgment" available for public view, but that will change on April 23.

In their subtly lighted temporary home at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the six enormous weavings at the core of “Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries” are feasts ...

The tapestries also brought life and warmth to otherwise cold, bare castle walls. Their themes were chosen with great care to bolster political programs.

What a tangled and tense tapestry of princes, popes, alliances made and broken, cardinals, bribery, conspiracies, cutthroats, kings, bankers and relentless wars among the city-states of Florence ...