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

Drawings let us see the artist at work, thinking through problems. Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael’s drawings are like fingerprints or handwriting. Each had unique styles and methods of drawing. Raphael frequently drew hands. Michelangelo concentrated on the muscular torso or twisting body. Leonardo brainstormed on paper, keenly interested in nature and how the world around him worked.

Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper is one of his most admired and recognizable art works. It is iconic, has been reproduced endlessly, parodied

Four mysteries: one is a painting with no clear meaning, an unexplained self-portrait, Botticelli's muse, and a da Vinci painting that might

How would you like to be remembered? That selfie you took on vacation, a wedding photo, or image from a family gathering? We consciously...

Art is a business The making and selling of art may not be the world’s oldest profession, but it has been a commercial endeavor for...

2017 made art news with the attributed Leonardo da Vinci painting selling for an unheard-of price. This raises some interesting questions...

Is Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi real or a copy? Experts disagree.

Four Renaissance masters. Individually they were artistic geniuses. Collectively their bodies of work are considered the epitome of the...

The Italian language is expressive and the terms used to describe art are evocative and just fun to say out loud. Terms like chiaroscuro...