Renaissance

Botticelli’s Birth of Venus: the ultimate ideal of feminine beauty & where the artist got his inspiration

Domenico Ghirlandaio: Florentine artist, teacher to Michelangelo

Critics Choice: Gold & Silver Awards for Eternally Artemisia and The Secret Life of Sofonisba

The Secret Life of Sofonisba—the most famous woman you’ve never heard of

The Marvelous Miss Anguissola!

Fra Filippo Lippi e Lucrezia Buti: an infamous love

Raphael’s “The School of Athens” – Fun facts and rivalries

Teresa Oaxaca — Contemporary American Artist who Paints with a Renaissance Twist

Happy 568th Birthday Leo!

The man who wrote the book of Love — Petrarch’s sonnets to Laura

The magic of the Magi.

Tale of Two Crosses by Cimabue

In the Presence of the Last Super by Stacy di Anna Pollard

Buon Compleanno Michelangelo: Celebrating the Renaissance artist born March 6

I Medici the Masters of Florence: Watch how the Duomo was built!

Leonardo’s advice—Sketch everything you see