The San Domenico Museum in Forlì, Italy, is hosting a monumental exhibition, “Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance.” The show brings together 360 works of art, borrowed from major European, American, ...

The recovery of the artistic ideals of classical antiquity between 1400 and 1600 was hardly the only major period of cultural ...

The pieces that are displayed in the exhibition are sourced from the Royal Collection, which, with near 2,000 sheets, possesses one of the world’s largest collections of Renaissance drawings. Drawing ...

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 ...

Tucked between hill and hollow, Collodi captivates visitord with its unspoiled grace and silhouette from another age. This ...

The Renaissance, often hailed as one of the most transformative periods in human history, gave rise to an unparalleled explosion of creativity. For anyone who’s stood before the Sistine Chapel or ...

Painting and sculpture may fetch the highest prices and become the most renowned artworks, but the humble medium of drawing has been crucially important in art history, if often operating behind the ...

The Italian art police still don’t know who took the brilliantly illuminated manuscript page from a Franciscan friary, and ...

"Drawing is both the most central and the most elusive of the key artistic methods," said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. It is central because all art starts with it: we've all had a go at ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In light of the interest in my recent story about George Ingham Barnett, I thought it might be worthwhile to look into the sort of education a young architect such as he would have received back in ...