From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...

Renaissance: The Blood and The Beauty explores the lives of three rival artists - Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael – who created seductively beautiful works of art during an age of violence and ...

Ferrara, which grew up around a ford over the River Po, became an intellectual and artistic centre that attracted the greatest minds of the Italian Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries. Here, ...

Nestled in the heart of Tuscany, Florence is a city of firsts: it was the birthplace of the Renaissance, home to artistic geniuses like Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, and the spot where the ...

Renaissance singer Annie Haslam and one of the band's founding members, former Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty are to team up for some History Of Renaissance live shows in the US in November. That means ...

When I interviewed Annie Haslam for the Sept. 25, 2012 edition of online radio's Dave White Presents, the singer told me she had been very reluctant to reform Renaissance in 2011. For one thing, she ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Danyel Smith, author of the book Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women In Pop and host of the podcast Black Girl Songbook, about the new Beyoncé album.