Renaissance geopolitics were notoriously convoluted, but the basic history can be neatly told: In 1524, Francis I of France led his forces into Italy. The Holy Roman Empire and France were the two ...

AI reveals St. Joseph’s face in Raphael’s Madonna della Rosa was likely painted by someone else. The rest matches Raphael’s ...

Byzantine art had a significant impact on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution of the cultural boom of the early modern ages.

The exhibition at the Met, which runs through Jan. 26, examines those years leading to the onset of the plague that killed ...

It only lasted a few hours. It was really a rout. But the Battle of Pavia, which changed the balance of power in Europe, was an event of such sweeping action and teeming complexity that perhaps ...