More than $850 million — that’s the estimated value of the legendary Mona Lisa painting. Nevertheless, one of the most famous paintings and an iconic Renaissance art piece is not for sale.

Tapestries during the Renaissance were more prestigious than paintings. They were incredibly expensive to make. Favored by traveling courts because they were portable (you just roll them up), they ...

In essence, this exhibition offers first, a fresh perspective on the preeminence of Siena in Early Renaissance Italy — as ...

One could say that some paintings in the exhibition “Siena: The Rising of Painting, 1300-1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are movie stills and posters ... in Europe around 1350 as ...

Meaning that painting, specifically figuration, is having yet another renaissance. In this case, it is figuration that extends the ... or that the general level of visual culture in our screen ...

The exhibition at the Met, which runs through Jan. 26, examines those years leading to the onset of the plague that killed millions in Europe around 1350 as an exceptional moment at the dawn of the ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... in all senses of the term, a period when colossal advances in art, science, and geography reshaped ...

Experts cleaning a supposed imitation of a Botticelli painting have discovered it was actually created in the Renaissance ... emeritus professor of art history at the University of Cambridge.