The medieval city of Siena is a treasure trove of Renaissance art, which is the focus of a new exhibition at the National Gallery. Michael Hodges heads to Tuscany to experience the magic for himself ...

The Renaissance began to take on a far more global shape, as artists like Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein developed their own artistic styles in northern Europe, and the voyages of discovery ...

The Renaissance is often imagined as a period of European artistic and intellectual flourishing, yet its depictions frequently erase the presence of Black Africans who lived in cities like Venice ...

The opening of The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europeon June 24 will bring together objects that reflect Renaissance Europe’s understanding of death. The objects that will be on ...

“We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe,” a documentary by filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, seeks to correct this omission. The film, which screens at UC Santa Barbara’s ...