The Renaissance, often hailed as one of the most transformative periods in human history, gave rise to an unparalleled ...

It only lasted a few hours. It was really a rout. But the Battle of Pavia, which changed the balance of power in Europe, was an event of such sweeping action and teeming complexity that perhaps only a ...

Rebirth and reform in Renaissance Italy. At the beginning of C. S. Lewis’s novel The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the Pevensie children are astonished by how real a painting of a ship on the bedroom ...

The Renaissance in painting was born in a Florentine chapel, the Brancacci, and culminated in a Roman one, the Sistine. In the frescoes of the first, located in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine, ...

Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may have cracked one using chemistry and physics. Around the turn of the 15th century in Italy ...