“bracciale,” it’s a team sport that dates back to the Renaissance period. Roughly a cross between tennis, squash, volleyball and cricket, it was Italy’s most popular sport until the 20th ...

In this period, women were given special blessings ... She added: “It’s going to overturn the notion that the Italian Renaissance was a cultural phenomenon that only involved men.” ...

Drawing the Italian Renaissance features over one hundred and fifty pieces ... Raphael was one of the only artists of the period to draw from the nude female, and the result can be seen in his Three ...

If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity. What were the ...

Explore Italy's most beautiful cities of Florence ... buildings and churches that demonstrate the burgeoning knowledge of the Renaissance period. You will be based in Florence, the cradle of ...