A new exhibition at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is brimming with opulent religious panel paintings, altarpieces, sculptures, textiles and metalworks from the Italian city of Siena ...

Friars, particularly Franciscans, read texts such as the Meditations on the Life of Christ from the early 14th century, motivating them to unlock spiritual power by envisioning every little ...

The show will unveil 100 paintings, sculptures, and relics hailing from the oft-overlooked early Renaissance movement that took shape in Siena during the 14th century.

Fourteenth-century Venice, with a population of 100,000, was not only one of Europe’s largest cities, but also a wealthy maritime trading hub and a cultural center where the aesthetics of ...

Renaissance man and rapper Kanye West has rolled out a 12-piece jewelry line inspired by 14th century Florentine Art. West said the jewelry line is "a letter to my wife from a past life that can ...

But the work isn’t medieval; it’s early Renaissance art. ... “Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance,” the fourteenth-century piece, along with the rest of the exhibition, ...

Art: BYZANTINE RENAISSANCE. 3 minute read. ... Kariye Camii, rebuilt on an older structure in the early 14th century and later converted into a mosque. With official blessing, ...

This brief chapter of art history is ... See the Breathtaking 14th-Century Sienese Artworks That Helped Set ... While many look to Florence as the creative pulse of early Renaissance art, ...