FLORENCE, Italy — Last Sunday evening, soon after the final visitors had trickled out of the historic Palazzo Pitti, Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi Gallery gathered with other museum ...

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence. By Emily LaBarge reviewing from London We all know what they say about ...

Imagine, if you will, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael sitting together at a Florentine lunch table, discussing painting over a bowl of thick Tuscan soup.

The enduring impact of Michelangelo’s canon of the heroic male nude, shaped over the course of his career, is hard to overstate and thrilling to watch unfold. The Albertina Museum’s rich graphic-arts ...

When it comes to the Renaissance greats, Raphael surely needs no introduction. His huge impact on the course of Western art is well-known thanks to his membership, alongside Leonardo and Michelangelo, ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Michelangelo Buonarroti wasn’t a great painter, per his own admission, especially compared to his contemporaries and students, Caravaggio ...