Explore the lives of three rival artists - Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael Renaissance: The Blood and The Beauty explores the lives of three rival artists - Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael – who ...

AFTER wide-scale exhibitions presenting art from the Baroque and Gothic periods as well as the 20th century, the Slovak National Gallery (SNG) has opened an extensive and unique display of Renaissance ...

"Remember Me," now on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, unites more than 100 European Renaissance portraits. Pictured here is Albrecht Dürer's 1508 chalk sketch of an unidentified African man.

The scenes are of pure carnage and chaos. Iron-clad men thrusting swords and pikes into each other. Guns firing and flames burning. Waves of human bodies both rushing to confront and scattering from ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. A combustible mix of the serious, the ephemeral, the aesthetic, the political and the ...

With minimal ingenuity, any historical period can be made to dissolve into the ones around it. Take the rock revolution—that great shift which, emerging in the mid-nineteen-fifties and established by ...

Renaissance: The Blood and The Beauty explores the lives of three rival artists - Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael – who created seductively beautiful works of art during an age of violence and ...