Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wild visions: detail of Andromeda Freed by Perseus (with Perseus Slaying the Dragon) by Piero di Cosimo - VCG Wilson/Corbis via ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. The Renaissance, often hailed as one of the most transformative periods in human history, gave rise to ...

Greek mythology sparked the Renaissance, transforming art from religious instruction to profound explorations of human potential.

Italian researcher Isabella Dalla Ragione has a most unusual job. An “arboreal archaeologist,” Dalla Ragione scours Renaissance paintings and medieval archives, discovering endangered fruits that ...

Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art uses the cost of a cow to consider the worth of 16th-century objects. “Bird” (German, Nuremberg, 1580, ...

Portrait of a Canon Regular, painted by the maestra in 1552, was exhibited at the Winter Show, art fair held at the Park Avenue Armory.

Andy Warhol created his own rendition of Leonardo da Vinci's The Annunciation as a part of a series intended to give a "Pop" twist to the icons of the Italian Renaissance. Rather than depicting a ...

Consider Michelangelo’s famous “Creation of Adam,” Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” or Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” When you think of Western art’s grand visual narratives of ...

The present work, Details of Renaissance Paintings (Piero della Francesca, Madonna del Duca da Montefeltro, circa 1472), is a unique screenprint by Andy Warhol. Coming from his 1984 portfolio of ...