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 ...

For centuries, Renaissance art history was an exclusive gentlemen’s club with genius men, dramatic patrons, and women mostly appearing as muses, saints, or decorative background figures holding fruit.

There's always a story to accompany Renaissance artworks. Was Michelangelo really lying on his back for four years painting ...

Our idea of drawing today may be no more than an artist putting ideas onto paperas a quick sketch, a preparatory drawing for a painting, or a finely finished stand-alone drawing. But during the ...

The San Domenico Museum in Forlì, Italy, is hosting a monumental exhibition, “Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance.” The show brings together 360 works of art, borrowed from major European, American, ...

Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may have cracked one using chemistry and physics. Around the turn of the 15th century in Italy ...

Vincent Van Gogh and Michelangelo, monumental figures in art, are remembered both for their incredible works and supposed madness. (Photo courtesy of Creative Commons) Most people, well-versed in art ...

Cavier Coleman (otherwise known as “Cavier”) is a local NYC treasure. He’s a prolific artist who dabbles in just about every creative medium, ranging from painting and collage to fashion designing and ...

The Harlem Renaissance, a cultural and artistic movement that thrived during the 1920s, was a remarkable period in American history. It was a time when African-American art, literature, and music ...