A period of immense artistic and cultural growth that ushered out the Middle Ages, forever changing the world in the process, the Renaissance began in the Florentine Republic in the 14 th century, ...

His influence held sway up until the 19th century. A number of Renaissance artists also recommended its use: Leonardo, Vasari, Paolo Pino, Francesco de Hollanda, Cellini, Danti, Allori, Armenini and ...

His heroic figure of The Risen Christ (c. 1532) is no less improbable; ... Raphael, The Three Graces, c. 1517-18, from Drawing the Italian Renaissance at the King's Gallery ...

A 16th-century drawing that has not been on display for more than 400 years because of its poor condition will finally be exhibited after a painstaking conservation project. The work by Bernardino ...

Far from simply another opportunity to admire the beautiful people, 'The Renaissance Nude' at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles presents timely conversations carried over through the centuries.

Drawing, it suggests, isn’t a rarefied activity. A young lad dressed in a cap and pointed slippers sits hunched over a sheet of paper at work on a drawing. Beside him a dog is curled up fast asleep.

If you show a picture of Michelangelo’s statue of David, one of the most familiar works in art history, to a room full of schoolchildren they may smirk or giggle over the figure’s naked body.

A new exhibition at London's British Museum unites arguably the world's two greatest collections of Renaissance drawings and underlines their growing importance to artists throughout the 15th century.

HUNTINGTON -- Linda Helgason spent many a year teaching English in the South Point School District before she retired and took up a second career nearly 20 years ago.

Bruce Bowersock is again leading a Saturday afternoon figure drawing class at the Renaissance Gallery. Classes resume January 9, 2010. This class is open to adult students. Both professional and ...