Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

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Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the ...

A new exhibition at Buckingham Palace features over 150 Renaissance drawings by masters like Raphael, Michelangelo, and ...

Mussolini, for his part, used the Classical motif and identification with ancient Rome to frame his fascist regime as the rightful heir to the Roman Empire. Architecture was deployed to justify a ...

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The Palazzo is making a triumphant return this year, blending the timeless beauty of Beaux-Arts with the calming essence of ...

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Rome is a blockbuster European city break. Nothing makes you feel like a blip in time quite like a stay in the Eternal City ...

Deep beneath Rome’s Domus Aurea, archaeologists have unearthed a rare ingot of Egyptian blue — the world’s first synthetic pigment.

The Vatican allows Catholic marriages to take place in the Chapel of the Choir in St. Peter’s Basilica and in the small city ...

What began as an athletic clubhouse evolved into a memorial for the 2,700 students and alumni who served in World War I, ...