Filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu brings his documentary We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe ...

Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...

Jan van Eyck, one of the most famous artists of the Renaissance period, and often called the pioneer of the Northern Renaissance was an exceptional painter who served under a King and a Duke in ...

A new exhibition at Buckingham Palace features over 150 Renaissance drawings by masters like Raphael, Michelangelo, and ...

Many Renaissance artists went on to provide the illustrations for anatomists’ textbooks and pamphlets, which in turn became educational tools for a new cohort of artists and scientists.

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

Featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and others, a show at the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace highlights the period’s works on paper—which, though frequently preparatory, stand as ...

This painting was holding a centuries-old secret that art historians were thrilled to find. A close examination of "Ecce Homo" by Renaissance artist Titian revealed another painting underneath.

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?