Duke Alessandro de’ Medici is all over the Princeton University campus these days. His handsome visage, from a painting by Agnolo Bronzino completed in the middle of the 1500s, is on the banner ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo: Cristian Baitg Schreiweis/Getty Images From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa ...

Finials of a Chaplet (France or southern Netherlands, 1530 with mid-19th-century insertion) (ca. 1850–1860), elephant ivory (courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum, London) BRUNSWICK, Maine — The first ...

Connecting the past to the present, the documentary ‘We Were Here’ sparks conversations about representation, belonging, and historical memory. (Courtesy UCSB MCC) The Renaissance is often imagined as ...

"This publication accompanies the exhibition Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, held at the Walters Art Museum from October 14, 2012, to January 21, 2013, and at the Princeton ...

"Remember Me," now on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, unites more than 100 European Renaissance portraits. Pictured here is Albrecht Dürer's 1508 chalk sketch of an unidentified African man.

On both sides of the Atlantic last week, men paid homage to a renaissance. “The nations of Western Europe,” said President Kennedy on the Fourth of July in Philadelphia, “long divided by feuds far ...