How a rarely-seen drawing of the Three Graces by Raphael reveals the era's ideas about nudity, modesty, shame – and the ...

The basilica, consecrated on Nov. 18, 1626, is a place of beauty and transcendence, prayer and worship. It is a place made ...

St. Paul is blunt about this fact: Unless Jesus is risen from the dead, “your faith is in vain” (1 Corinthians 15:14). Unless ...

For his first non-American subject, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns chose Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci.

Shadow Paintings" now on view at the Albertina, Vienna, presents the Romanian artist's visions of Schiele's lost masterworks ...

An opera based on a book by Chinese author Hong Ying received its world premiere in London on Nov 1, with the help of two ...

The Renaissance rivals Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael vied for the attention of wealthy Italian patrons during the early ...

The history of art is full of pieces inspired by religion. This makes sense of course, since religion was an integral part of ...

Show at the King's Gallery features an 'enormous cache' of works by the likes of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael ...