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

Michelangelo was active as an artist for some seventy years and the exhibit brought together works from his earliest teenage years to drawin

Why Venice? Venice is one of a kind. The location, geography, history, art, culture, and architecture are unmatched in mainland Italy....

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...

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...

Don’t like big museums? Overwhelmed by tourists in Florence? Here are four delightful small towns in Tuscany, perfect for those who don’t li

Three sites tell the story of St. Francis of Assisi as he began a radical new way of preaching and serving people and in the process challen

Was Michelangelo gay? Did he work alone and earn a fortune? Historical evidence tells us more about how he worked and what mattered to him t

The plague had a profound psychological, economic, artistic, and spiritual impact. There were many bouts of plague, usually peaking in the h

Four thousand art historians, museums professionals, artists - and me at the College Art Association meeting in New York city.

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

You are about to enter a church in Italy - but you may be non-Christian, non-religious, Buddhist, atheist, pagan, Jewish, or come from...

St. Sebastian holds an important place in the Middle Ages and Renaissance as he was the patron saint of the plague, which devastated the pop

Before the Renaissance – Was it Dark? The “Dark Ages” – sounds so melodramatic, like a cheesy romance novel. The period prior to the...

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...