What’s old is new again in a special exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art connecting Italian early modern art with contemporary fashions from Versace, Armani, Ferragamo and others. Hoop skirts, ...

What makes “Renaissance to Runway” feel so alive is its sense of continuum. The exhibition doesn’t relegate the Renaissance to a gilded past; it threads it directly into our present. The fabrics, ...

Over the centuries, perhaps no volume of poetry has claimed the devotion of so many people across the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and also inspired the creation of artistic ...

A new book by the Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt contends that the innovative dramatist Christopher Marlowe was the genius who inspired a cultural awakening. By Jonathan Healey Jonathan Healey is ...

What started as a 1960s school fundraiser in California became a nationwide escape into the past. Here’s the history behind the Renaissance fairs and how they blend fantasy, theater, and community in ...

From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...

In 15th-century Italy, an architect known as Filarete came up with a groundbreaking system for expelling odors from the latrines of a hospital he was designing in Milan. Waste from the toilet rooms in ...

Many of Alex Kachkine’s earliest memories revolve around two core passions. One is engineering. Kachkine’s great-grandfather built bridges, their grandmother developed autopiloting systems for Soviet ...

The portly, balding sculptor-turned-architect must have drawn a few curious gazes as he set up a complicated painting apparatus in the corner of a Renaissance-era piazza. He planted his instrument, ...

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