Italian Renaissance writer Giovanni Boccaccio, who died in 1375, is thought to have used the gardens as inspiration for his ...

For Lake Como adventures, take the one hour and fifteen minute train ride from Milan Centrale to Varenna. The journey offers ...

The Italian Renaissance was a remarkable moment in the development of art, when many of the most revered creations of all ...

Being the medium of choice for painted walls in Pompeiian villas and Renaissance-era palaces and churches, fresco painting is an ancient painting technique where pigments are laid onto fresh ...

A new two-month free exhibit at Chesterton Art Center celebrates rituals, customs and cultural heritage through the mediums of fresco painting and photography.

Masterpieces from Rome’s Galleria Borghese will be on show alongside the built-in Tiepolo frescos of the Jacquemart-André ...

The Gem City Renaissance Festival made its debut Sunday, attracting knights, lords and wizards to Frontier Park. Britty Lea has been planning the Gem City Renaissance Festival for months ...

which was a “more superficial” technique and very different from the laborious fresco. Even –after Michelangelo's death- The edges of the controversy continued to be validIt is known that the famous ...

The Renaissance, that amorphous period of extraordinary cultural change and creative revolution that vaguely lasted from the 14th to 17th centuries, gets a little longer this year. The Connecticut ...

The Connecticut Renaissance Faire is almost here. Back for its 26th year, this annual faire is a recreation of a 16th-century harvest festival set right in "New England's Olde England," offering an ...

The 48th Maryland Renaissance Festival begins Saturday on 27 acres in Crownsville, just outside Annapolis. The festival, at 1821 Crownsville Road, runs for nine weeks, on Saturday and Sunday ...