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From Florence to Mantua, the Renaissance left the Italian peninsula with a dazzling architectural heritage. Cathedrals, palaces and villas still bear the imprint of this artistic revolution, born of a ...

The San Domenico Museum in Forlì, Italy, is hosting a monumental exhibition, “Pre-Raphaelites: Modern Renaissance.” The show brings together 360 works of art, borrowed from major European, American, ...

There are places you visit, and there are places that rearrange your sense of what human beings are capable of building. Italy’s Renaissance landmarks belong firmly in the second category. Born in the ...

Editor’s Note: For more on Italian food, watch new CNN Original Series “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy” on CNNgo. The signs of the Renaissance are everywhere in Italy. Grand piazzas and palazzos.

With a major exhibition taking place at the V&A from next month, Renaissance Art is being given, well, a bit of a renaissance (‘scuse the pun) for a modern-day audience. Michelozzo, An Adoring Angel, ...

In 1399, a crowd gathered in the Tuscan city of Pisa, even though people understood that a plague ravaging the area was contagious. Devotees traveled from town to town and carried a crucifix—a ...

During the Renaissance, the Italian diet consisted primarily of wine and bread, with a small portion of meat (preferably a type of foul, because birds lived closer to the heavens when they took flight ...

Botticelli blush and princess braids were embraced by Gigi Hadid, Vittoria Ceretti, and Mariacarla Boscono on the Vogue World ...

What is Cleopatra, born in 69 B.C., doing in an exhibition titled “Strong Women in Renaissance Italy”? And why do the Queen of Sheba (10th century B.C.), Judith (sixth century B.C.), Salome and Mary ...