SPENCER — Renaissance festivals are usually planned with authenticity and entertainment in mind. At North Rowan Middle School, Leigh Ann Alexander’s art students created a Renaissance festival with ...

Nowadays, technology has reached such heights when truly incredible construction projects have become available to a man.

Art meets physics meets hands-on exploration at the Museum of Science this fall with a new exhibit revolving around the work of the original Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci. “Da Vinci – the Genius, ...

Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (NKJ) / Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art Vol. 59, ENVISIONING THE ARTIST IN THE EARLY MODERN NETHERLANDS / HET BEELD VAN DE KUNSTENAAR IN DE VROEGMODERNE ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The 16th century was an age of exploration in all senses of the term, a period when colossal advances in art, ...

So many of the cornerstones of modern convenience that we may take for granted today were once inventions and creations on ...

That the Renaissance took place north as well as south of the Alps is not news, but in his enlightening and fascinating study, “The Other Renaissance,” Paul Strathern demonstrates the weight and ...

If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity. What were the ...

The presence of the Etruscans in Italy was felt already during the Middle Ages through reminders in the landscape and architecture of central Italy and by the findings of antiquities. But despite of ...