Styles from centuries ago show up in contemporary fashions from major designers on view in “Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses.” ...

What makes “Renaissance to Runway” feel so alive is its sense of continuum. The exhibition doesn’t relegate the Renaissance to a gilded past; it threads it directly into our present. The fabrics, ...

The 19th-century aesthete Walter Pater likened Luca della Robbia’s sculptures to “fragments of the milky sky itself, fallen into the cool streets, and breaking into the darkened churches.” These ...

Picture yourself in a medieval Italian church, light streaming down from above. The gold glint of an altarpiece attracts your notice from afar, and as you approach you see that not only the gold is ...

Somewhere in Cambridge at a MIT lab, a 15th-century painting depicting a Renaissance infant, once thought too damaged to display, now hangs fully restored. But this transformation didn’t come from a ...

Yang Hao's new book Annabel's Short Renaissance Art History gives a practical guide to the art world. [Photo provided to China Daily] More Chinese now travel around Europe and see Renaissance ...