The Renaissance began in Italy during the 14th century, spreading across Europe by the 17th century. This period saw a revival of classical knowledge, art, and architecture inspired by Ancient ...

The dome is one of the most recognizable traits of Renaissance architecture, especially in churches, though its use spread to secular structures as well. In contrast to the Gothic style of rectangular ...

Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man is a mysterious treasure of Renaissance art. A dentist believes he may have uncovered one ...

As the architectural historian Peter Murray notes, there weren't any ruins of private Roman houses for Palladio to examine, so he assumed that they had resembled the ancient temples he could study.

An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City, written by Phillip James Dodd with photography by Jonathan Wallen, is a sumptuous book on an era – roughly from the 1870s to the ...

Before the Renaissance, church architecture, because it was the house of God, was the most noble art form. Other arts, like statues, paintings, and stained glass, were especially worthwhile if ...

It was designed in the mid-15th century by Leon Battista Alberti, who, together with Filippo Brunelleschi, mostly invented the classicizing humanist language of Renaissance architecture.

The Renaissance began in Italy during the 14th century, spreading across Europe by the 17th century. This period saw a revival of classical knowledge, art, and architecture inspired by Ancient ...