Angelico made the art look so real by using soft and bright pastel colours. The Sistine Madonna is one of the world’s most famous Renaissance paintings. Raphael showed his great creativity by ...

Historian Alexander Bevilacqua joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultural rebirth which came to be known as The Renaissance. When did The Renaissance begin? What was it ...

And here we mention some of the most famous artists in the world and the painting that shot them to fame. A true genius of the Renaissance era, Leonardo da Vinci is undoubtedly one of the most ...