If pushed to name three Renaissance artists (or three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael are probably most people’s picks (sorry, Donatello). The three giants of the ...

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence. By Emily LaBarge reviewing from London We all know what they say about ...

A single strong line eloquently maps the contour of cheek, chin, and neck; a handful of deft arcs convey dark lashes above ...

A major exhibition of the Renaissance artist’s work sheds light on the social and aesthetic factors that enabled his artistic ...

Among the many things I love about Italy is how the Renaissance can be spliced into your travels. Imagine: In Florence, you ...

Sublime Poetry,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

FLORENCE, Italy — Last Sunday evening, soon after the final visitors had trickled out of the historic Palazzo Pitti, Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi Gallery gathered with other museum ...

It’s rare that history offers up a simple diagnosis of cultural decline, but we happen to know the exact moment when all of European art headed for ruin. According to the critic John Ruskin, the ...

Peer to Michelangelo and Leonardo, Raphael produced many masterpieces before dying at age 37. His influence has only grown in the 500 years since his untimely death. Also known as The Madonna and ...

ROME – For the first time since 1983, all ten of Raphael’s grand tapestries depicting the lives of Saints Peter and Paul will be exhibited together in the Sistine Chapel, hanging at eye level beneath ...