This drama-documentary series offers an account of three of Italy’s monumental artists—Leonardo, Raphael and, as played by ...

RENAISSANCE: THE BLOOD AND THE BEAUTY Premieres Tuesdays, July 8-22, 2025 at 9:00 pm on PBS and Streaming on PBS.org and the ...

The Renaissance is often imagined as a period of European artistic and intellectual flourishing, yet its depictions frequently erase the presence of Black Africans who lived in cities like Venice, ...

Rick Steves' Europe. Rick Steves’ Europe: Art of the Florentine Renaissance. Season 12 Episode 1207 | 28m 3s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Florence’s bold “rebirth” is powered by the ...

If you're looking to explore the magic of Renaissance Europe, your first port of call is undoubtedly Italy, the birthplace of the greatest minds of the period, such as Leonardo da Vinci and ...

After centuries of medieval struggles, Europe enjoyed a rebirth, or renaissance, of the enlightened ways of ancient Greece and Rome. Though born in Florence, all this progress, so much great ...

Doctor Faustus was a real person—a conduit, said some (including Martin Luther) for diabolic magic. Others in early 16th-century Germany dismissed him as a “vagabond,” a man who played ...

On both sides of the Atlantic last week, men paid homage to a renaissance. “The nations of Western Europe,” said President Kennedy on the Fourth of July in Philadelphia, “long divided by ...