Italian Art for Travelers
Your passport to culture, history, and art

Lorenzo Ghiberti sculpted sixty-ton bronze doors for Florence’s Baptistery. Ghiberti’s masterpiece is the equal to Michelangelo in techniqu

Big Data 1400s Style A Florentine Snapshot It’s 1424 in Florence, the wealthy commercial urban center of Tuscany. Giovanni Bianco (a...

There were a few artists that stretched the limits of tradition and broke boundaries. Their innovations were not immediately taken up by oth

The Renaissance is a historical period with rough dates of about 1350-1600. It is not just an artistic style. As the name implies, it was a re-birth of art, literature, and architecture.