Although it includes work by Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo, this exhibition of Renaissance drawings also includes much ...

Jacques-Louis David's The Death of Marat is a deceptively simple image of a real-life murder. But a closer look at the iconic ...

The story of a nation finding it's own cultural identity surrounded by Russia, China, and Afghanistan. It's economy is also ...

Curator Earle Havens shares highlights from Johns Hopkins' collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts—and his team's ...

Human history, a jaw-dropping grab bag, blunts easy assessments, let alone presumptive superiority to one sect, tribe or mindset. Never before have privileged Americans faced such ...

On 17 October 1817, in Delhi, was born a man whose ideas would alter the course of Indian Muslim history. Sir Syed Ahmad Khan — scholar, reformer, jurist, and visionary — was not merely an individual ...

Never before or later in Polish architecture did the wealth of forms and details take on such a spectacular scale as in the Baroque era, when temples and palaces were designed with exceptional panache ...

What do you get when you mix Renaissance and Baroque music from Europe with Carnatic and Hindustani music from the Indian ...

The work’s frank treatment of clergy sexual misconduct, its celebration of cleverness over piety, and its bawdy humor created a humanistic vision that influenced Renaissance literature ... and his ...

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 ...

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

An artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been developed to enable camera-based autonomous vehicles to perceive their ...