Renaissance

Culture
by John Bensalhia |
Music to the ears? John Bensalhia looks at the styles, instruments and composers of the Renaissance age. (Read Part 1 - Introduction and…
Culture
by John Bensalhia |
John Bensalhia brushes up on one of the most famous sectors of the Italian Renaissance – the art world. (Read Part 1 - Introduction and Overview…
Culture
by Silvia Donati |
The Jacquemart-Andrè Museum in Paris is hosting a retrospective dedicated to Renaissance master and Raphael’s teacher Perugino. “Perugino – Master of Raphael”…
Culture
by Silvia Donati |
[Image: Pintoricchio, ‘The Coronation of Pope Pius III’ (1509), Duomo of Siena.] San Gimignano is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the Umbria-born…
Culture
by John Bensalhia |
In our fourth article dedicated to the Italian Renaissance, John Bensalhia describes the most important advances in science. (Read Part 1 - Introduction…
Culture
by Silvia Donati |
Italy is a treasure trove of precious works of art and it’s not uncommon to find them in unthinkable places where they lie hidden and forgotten. In Brescia, a…
Culture
by Katia Amore |
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is staging an exhibition featuring forty-two masterpieces of Central and Southern Italian Renaissance…
Culture
by Silvia Donati |
The beautiful landscapes seen in the background of many Renaissance paintings, including those by Piero della Francesca, Raphael, and Leonardo Da Vinci,…
Culture
by Silvia Donati |
A precious painting by the Renaissance artist Romanino was unexpectedly discovered behind a closet in a little room inside a church in Valcamonica, Lombardy’s…
Culture
by Katia Amore |
  Easter is probably the most important Christian festival because it celebrates the resurrection of Christ, but I have always considered it also as the…