Italian Art for Travelers
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Approximately six million people visit the Sistine Ceiling and Vatican Museums each year. Who made these treasures possible? Two popes from

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...

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.