Look closely at the art of the European Renaissance and you’ll find Africans hidden in plain sight, said Robin Cembalest in ARTnews.com. The 1539 painting that inspired this inventive show once ...

Duke Alessandro de’ Medici is all over the Princeton University campus these days. His handsome visage, from a painting by Agnolo Bronzino completed in the middle of the 1500s, is on the banner ...

"We Were Here" unveils the untold history of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe through iconic artworks. This multilingual film, shot across Europe, challenges the notion that all Blacks were slaves ...

Connecting the past to the present, the documentary ‘We Were Here’ sparks conversations about representation, belonging, and historical memory. (Courtesy UCSB MCC) The Renaissance is often imagined as ...

Finials of a Chaplet (France or southern Netherlands, 1530 with mid-19th-century insertion) (ca. 1850–1860), elephant ivory (courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum, London) BRUNSWICK, Maine — The first ...

When the European astronomer Nicholas Copernicus theorized in the early sixteenth century that the sun, rather than the earth, was at the center of the universe, it was a key moment in the Renaissance ...

The “mirror” referenced in the title of the new book The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe, represents both the ivory-colored skull beneath one’s skin and a harbinger of one’s ...

The Renaissance was a time of significant innovation in art and interior design. This is how to incorporate the era's vibrant ...