The Italian Renaissance was the birth of Western art as it is known today. When asked to think of “great” paintings, minds often conjure Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” Michelangelo’s program on the ...

From Humble to Sumptuous: The Earliest Christian Art. ... and other masterpieces of Renaissance religious painting are now on view through March 30 at the Kimbell Museum here.

This drama-documentary series offers an account of three of Italy’s monumental artists—Leonardo, Raphael and, as played by ...

Art: BYZANTINE RENAISSANCE. 3 minute read. TIME. September 12, 1955 12:00 AM GMT-4. ... Into the rigid Byzantine forms that had governed Eastern religious art for almost a thousand years, ...

Art of the Renaissance. Special | 55m 35s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Groundbreaking statues, paintings, and architecture—humanism in Florence and beyond. 04/01/2023 | Expires 04/01/2028 ...

Religious art, in modern times, has fallen from the liveliness of the Renaissance, when religion was civilization and men brought a homely vitality to their church art. John Singer Sargent's* ...

Ever since patrician Englishmen made Florence a stop on the Grand Tour in the 17th century, the city, a Renaissance crucible of painting and sculpture, has been a destination for art worshipers.

At his studio fringed by the mountains of Klosters, Swiss sculptor Christian Bolt is feverishly cooking up recipes to ...

In this environment, religious art became one of the most — if not the most — powerful bridge of faith alone, between men, women and the divine — alleviating their constant fear of death. Veneziano’s ...

The Minneapolis Institute of Art's exhibition "Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi," opening Oct. 16, brings that sensibility into the present.