About the speaker: Dr. Anik Waldeck earned her Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of Cambridge, where her research focused on art of the Italian Renaissance, Venice in particular.

With a major exhibition taking place at the V&A from next month, Renaissance Art is being given, well, a bit of a renaissance (‘scuse the pun) for a modern-day audience. Michelozzo, An Adoring ...

Take Bellini’s Feast of the Gods, 1514, which has long been recognised as a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance. This is a painting that was produced by the Venetian artist for the Duke of Ferrara, ...

Steven Stowell is an historian of late medieval and Early Modern Italian art, whose research focuses on the devotional experiences and ritual uses of sacred images, the intersections between art and ...

The 16th-century Italian painter Giorgio Vasari, biographer of Italian Renaissance artists, tells a story about the painter Giotto fooling his teacher Cimabue by adding a realistic-looking fly to a ...

“Birth of Venus” and “The Creation of Adam” created by Italian Renaissance artists Sandro Botticelli and Michelangelo as well as “Roger Delivering Angelica” by French painter Auguste-Dominique Ingres ...

A marble block being chipped away at, slowly transforming into a work of art — it’s an image taken straight out of the Italian Renaissance. Except it isn’t. Because the thing doing the chipping is not ...

Antonio Solario's painting was snatched from the Civic Museum of Belluno in 1973. Now, after a drawn out legal battle and a convincing case argued by the art world's 'Sherlock Holmes', its British own ...

The exhibition of Italian Renaissance art, culture and life is launched at the Capital Museum, Beijing, on March 26, 2018. The 102 items on display are selected from 17 Italian museums and ...

Art of the Italian Renaissance is often seen as the product of one culture — Italy — but in fact Italian art was the result of interactions with cultures from around the world.