In 1587, Italian cartographer Urbano Monte completed a Renaissance map of the world with a unique perspective. Rather than drawing the Earth on a rectangular sheet, as many maps are displayed ...

An unprecedented exhibition opening Wednesday at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan reunites for the first time in over 450 years eight surviving panels of the Augustinian Altarpiece by the early ...

This fall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s highly anticipated “Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300–1350” will trace how an Italian city ... the oft-overlooked early Renaissance movement ...

That was the world of the early Italian Renaissance during the second half of the 15th century. Many people knew the names of some early poets of Italian literature – those who were active ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It has taken three years of letter writing, tense bilingual negotiation and delicate diplomacy, but the early Italian Renaissance ...

The Sack of Rome in 1527 was one of the most traumatic events in the ancient city’s history, marking a brutal collapse of Renaissance ... By the early 16th century Italy was a chaotic ...

PHOTOS: Milan exhibit sheds new light on Renaissance altarpiece ... A panel showed up in a private collection in San Sepolcro as early as 1620. The four big panels included in the exhibition ...

A panel showed up in a private collection in San Sepolcro as early as 1620. The four major panels in the exhibition turned up in Milan in the 1800s. The whereabouts of only other panel ...