Something The Mona Lisa, David, and The School of Athens all have in common is they represent a way of thinking that was ...

We often talk about the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance as two separate and distinct movements in art history, since the Renaissance began in Italy before spreading out into ...

The show rightly avoids the bias toward Florence in early Renaissance narratives that unfold in most museums and art history curricula outside of Italy. However, recent trailblazing research is ...

Text King Zygmunt August’s tapestries, the jewel of the Wawel collection and a symbol of the grandeur of old Poland, have been constituting a magnificent testimony to Renaissance art on Polish soil [.

That’s how Bona was portrayed in Henryk Rodakowski’s 1872 painting Wojna Kokosza (Hen War). Interestingly, the artist painted the piece after his return from Italy, where not only did he get to know ...

His engraving Battle of the Nudes shows a remarkable attention to musculature and movement, hinting at his involvement in ...