FLORENCE, Italy — Last Sunday evening, soon after the final visitors had trickled out of the historic Palazzo Pitti, Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi Gallery gathered with other museum ...

There are plenty of standout moments in this tight, enterprising exhibition, which reconstructs what happened when three “titans” of the Italian Renaissance briefly overlapped in Republican Florence ...

“Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael” is a tightly curated look into the influence and mastery the three Renaissance artists exerted as their lives and work intersected in early sixteenth-century Florence ...

Imagine, if you will, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael sitting together at a Florentine lunch table, discussing painting over a bowl of thick Tuscan soup.

The enduring impact of Michelangelo’s canon of the heroic male nude, shaped over the course of his career, is hard to overstate and thrilling to watch unfold. The Albertina Museum’s rich graphic-arts ...

When it comes to the Renaissance greats, Raphael surely needs no introduction. His huge impact on the course of Western art is well-known thanks to his membership, alongside Leonardo and Michelangelo, ...

These subjects were not as familiar to the broader population as those of the Bible, and yet it would be a mistake to think that they were entirely foreign to less educated people in the Renaissance.

I’ll be honest with you: Michelangelo was never my favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. That would be Raphael. So as somebody who always tries to give the people what they want, I thought I’d rank ...