Art fraud was a common occurrence in the Italian Renaissance. Even a young Michelangelo took part in such a scheme, long ...

and that the Renaissance was a profoundly modern period — in many ways more fluid, free and adventurous than the centuries of Western classical music that followed. I passed a good part of my ...

On the classical sources of inspiration and emotional intensity in Riccio’s sculpture. This past winter, the Frick Collection in New York held a small but captivating exhibition about the Renaissance ...

The Western classical music canon is notoriously white and male – so you might assume that a black Renaissance composer would be a figure of significant interest, much-performed and studied.