A picture is worth a thousand words, and like texts, art is often meant to be “read” through critical deconstruction. Paintings can be far more complicated than they appear at first glance and ...
Explore Leonardo da Vinci's most famous works like the Mona Lisa, as well as his drawings and unfinished works. In 1517, Leonardo showed a visitor a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a ...
Ari Daniel - Host, "There's More to That" Italian researcher Isabella Dalla Ragione has a most unusual job. An “arboreal archaeologist,” Dalla Ragione scours Renaissance paintings and medieval ...
Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome. Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome. This rebirth of classical culture showed itself ...
A renowned painting by Raphael, the Madonna della Rosa (Madonna of the Rose), has been scrutinized by AI, revealing that the Italian Renaissance painter may not have created the face of Joseph in the ...