An exquisite miniature portrait by Italian painter Lavinia Fontana was serendipitously rediscovered after turning up at an auction in Texas.

A 16th-century Florentine noblewoman, Lisa Gherardini was the wife of a successful silk merchant named Francesco del Giocondo ...

Read our beginners' guide to the turbulent events of the Tudor era before seeing Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s musical *SIX* in ...

about a noblewoman who begins a sultry affair with the gamekeeper on her husband's estate. More of a breakup story than a love story, Someone Great takes place in the short period of time between ...

Serious musicians play mainly baroque works with not a period costume in sight ... and utterly outlandish dresses once worn by Venetian noblewomen are displayed amid patrician interiors and ...

An arboreal archaeologist roots around the Italian countryside and in centuries-old frescoes for a cornucopia of fruits long forgotten—but still viable to grow and consume ...

In 2024, the biggest and oldest names in computer-run hedge funds led the way, such as Renaissance Technologies, the firm founded by the late billionaire Jim Simons. The firm's two main funds avai ...

THE ANNUAL RENAISSANCE FAIR WILL BE BACK IN MELBOURNE THIS WEEKEND, BUT IN A NEW SPOT. A MONTH LONG EVENT WILL NOW BE AT CASTLE PARK ON NEW YORK AVENUE, NOT WICKHAM PARK. WESH 2 NEWS MEGAN ...

A Professor of Geology and Water Resources at the Cairo University Abbas Sharaky explained that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) was designed to hold 11 billion cubic meters, but its ...

London has served up a sumptuous Italian Renaissance feast this winter, with two exhibitions highlighting the role of drawing in the creative process. The Royal Academy of Art’s (RA) exhibition ...