Italian Renaissance

Until July 9, the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston hosts the exhibition "Botticelli and the Search of Divine" with thirty works by the Italian painter that focuses on Botticelli's visual poetry and his different styles during the years, from...

"The Leonardo da Vinci Experience" opened at Via della Conciliazione in mid-February. But there are also two other permanent “museums” devoted to Leonardo in Rome. They all celebrate the special relationship between the Eternal City and the Italian genius and...

A sixteenth-century book offers an insight on the issues that the women had to face in Renaissance Venice and still have to face today: violence, betrayal, family care, and inequality. Kairos Italy Theater's "The Worth of Women" takes us to...

"Artemisia Gentileschi and Her Times:" an exhibition celebrating the unrecognised success of Artemisia Gentileschi, a female artist who was undervalued in her time, but managed to achieve recognition in the male-dominated art world of the post-Renaissance era.

What is the importance of places? Can they have an agency? The Travelling Artist in the Italian Renaissance reevaluates and reconfigures the importance and sense of settings in the works of art of the Renaissance. Throughout the book, Professor Kim...

Valeria Finucci, author of The Prince's Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine (Harvard University Press, 2015), sits down with Amelia Linsky (PhD student in Italian Studies at Harvard University) to discuss how Vincenzo Gonzaga, Prince of Mantua, changed the Western...

The title of Douglas Biow's latest book encapsulates it perfectly well: On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). While reviving a studied consideration of the individual...

In honor of the 750th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s birth, Bronzino’s Allegorical Portrait of Dante (1532), in a very rare occurrence, is on view at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York from December 15th – January 15th, 2016. "The fact...