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

This drama-documentary series offers an account of three of Italy’s monumental artists—Leonardo, Raphael and, as played by Charles Dance, Michelangelo—against a backdrop of political and military ...

The Renaissance—from art-loving popes to Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and Michelangelo’s David—celebrated humanism and revolutionized how we think about our world.

Veneziano’s style of painting belonged to the Italo-Byzantine school, a term mostly used for Medieval paintings produced in Italy under the influence of Byzantine art from the Middle Ages until the ...

Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi When: Oct. 16-Jan. 8 Where: Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2400 3rd Av. S. Cost: $16-$20, free for 17 and under ...

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.

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* ...

From Humble to Sumptuous: The Earliest Christian Art By Willard Spiegelman Feb. 28, 2008 12:01 am ET Share ...

Since then each fragmentary restoration has added new proof of the power and achievement of Byzantine religious art between the 4th and 15th centuries A.D.