Greek mythology sparked the Renaissance, transforming art from religious instruction to profound explorations of human potential.

Painting and sculpture may fetch the highest prices and become the most renowned artworks, but the humble medium of drawing has been crucially important in art history, if often operating behind the ...

If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity. What were the ...

Botticelli’s iconic painting reshaped Renaissance art through its celebration of classical mythology and beauty. This episode ...

"100,000 years ago, someone made a humble sketch on a flat rock with a burnt stick. And the art of drawing — the parent of painting, architecture and sculpture -- was born. But it didn’t grow up until ...

The drawing by German Renaissance artist Dürer was purchased at a yard sale in Massachusetts for $30 in 2017 Shafiq Najib is a former writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He left PEOPLE in 2023. A piece of ...

Consider Michelangelo’s famous “Creation of Adam,” Sandro Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus” or Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” When you think of Western art’s grand visual narratives of ...

A detail from Raphael’s The Three Graces, c.1517–18 - Royal Collection Trust A young lad dressed in a cap and pointed slippers sits hunched over a sheet of paper at work on a drawing. Beside him a dog ...