While parts of the country's heritage wound up in prestigious museums abroad, others have suffered humiliating fates at home.

The film "Recognition of Man" explores the Renaissance era, highlighting the revival of classical ideals and the emergence of humanism in a medieval context. It emphasizes the transformation of ...

The Victorians saw the world changing. New technologies changed how we made and bought goods and Victorian era paintings show ...

Between 1300 and 1600 the Western world was transformed. An extraordinary wave of artistic and cultural innovation shattered medieval society and brought European culture reluctantly into the ...

If your first association when you think about psychedelic art is pulsating mandalas, adventurous guitar solos, and legions ...

The year was 1347. The Bubonic Plague was sweeping through Europe, creating mass panic and bringing many to believe the world as they knew it was ending. Some, seeing the plague as a curse from God ...

In 1973, ‘Madonna and Child’ by Antonio Solario was stolen. The 16th century Renaissance-era painting was taken from the civic museum in the town of Belluno in the Dolomite mountains of ...

A blockbuster exhibition of Italian Renaissance works on paper launching at the King’s Gallery in London later this year will include 12 works never seen in the UK including An ostrich, a chalk ...