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Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance, exhibition installation view, photo by Emanuele Rambaldi. San Domenico Museum, Forlì, Italy.

Michelangelo (1475-1564 CE) was an Italian artist, architect and poet, who is considered one of the greatest and most influential of all Renaissance figures. His most celebrated works, from a breathtaking portfolio of masterpieces, include...

A July 1918 photograph of British, Italian, and French officers conferring during the Second Battle of the Marne in the final months of the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums

Principal areas of the Italian penninsula and its vincinity up to the Second Punic War (218 BC).

A c. 1873 still life painting in oils, Still Life with Italian Earthenware Jar, by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), the French post-impressionist artist. This painting shows the transition from impressionism with its emphasis on atmospheric tones...

A photograph showing two Italian detainees being used in a demolition gang to remove rubble from damaged buildings and streets during the London Blitz. During the war, some 27,000 foreign nationals were detained in camps by the authorities...

This video is about the role of art in the Renaissance. In it, I introduce the new techniques developed by artists of the time and highlight the Italian Renaissance, High Renaissance, and Northern Renaissance. Along the way, I introduce you...

Isabella d’Este was the leading lady of the Renaissance who funded the works of such artists as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Many of the greatest Renaissance artworks would not exist today if not for her and yet few people today know...

The European Renaissance may have started in Florence, but it pretty quickly moved out of Italy and spread the art, architecture, literature, and humanism across Europe to places like France, Spain, England, and the Low Countries. SOURCES...

Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431-1506 CE) was an Italian Renaissance artist most famous for his use of foreshortening and other perspective techniques in engravings, paintings, and frescoes. Another common feature of Mantegna's work is his frequent...