Sofonisba Anguissola's undeniable talent attracted the attention of Michelangelo and the king of Spain. Today more and more of her works are being identified, securing the legacy of this remarkable ...

Styles from centuries ago show up in contemporary fashions from major designers on view in “Renaissance to Runway: The ...

Hollywood bracelet, bowls fashioned from a single piece of wood — these artisan-made items are never going to be regifted.

From the Mona Lisa to the American Gothic, these famous paintings don’t just grace museum walls; they offer a glimpse into the past and define entire generations. Although most of these masterpieces ...

The medieval period, also known as the Middle Ages, lasted roughly from the 5th to 15th centuries in Europe. It was a time of massive political, social, and cultural change which was marked by the ...

The monumental frescoes in the choir of San Lorenzo in Florence, commissioned in 1546 by Cosimo I de’ Medici, Duke of Florence, were supposed to be the painter Jacopo da Pontormo’s artistic legacy.

Art Fein, a Los Angeles music-scene renaissance man who worked as a journalist, publicist, manager and television host over a six-decade career, has died. He was 79. Fein died of heart failure on July ...

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 ...