"Talking about the Renaissance without showing the David, an undisputed icon of art and culture and of that historical period, would make no sense," Ms Hollberg said. The controversy began when ...

Bowie (born David Jones ... the world of art writ large — is indescribably poorer for his departure. He was, without doubt, one of modern culture’s last true Renaissance men — a man who ...

There's something eternally fascinating about the art of sculpture, more so when it depicts the human form. Michelangelo, for ...

In Disney’s adaptation of Jilly Cooper ’s Rivals, the romance novelist Lizzie Vereker sits at her typewriter, and imagines a ...

He was a rock star. He carved David out of marble when he was 26. He is the best-documented artist of the Renaissance. Historians have more than 1,000 letters written by or to Michelangelo ...

The Ashmolean Museum raised nearly £4.5 million (€5.4 million) to stop Fra Angelico’s The Crucifixion being sold overseas.

In 1504, three huge figures of the Renaissance era found themselves in Florence, then a city in turmoil. A fascinating new ...

Ashmolean saves Fra Angelico masterpiece for the public, launching the museum as world-leading centre for the study of ...

The Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford has raised £4.5 million to save an early Renaissance painting by Fra ...

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.

The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, which features thousands of Medieval, Renaissance ... casts of iconic works like Michelangelo's "David" are on display. According to recent visitors ...