The atmosphere was that of a 'shadow-realm Coney Island where the only prize is the grim certainty that the end is nigh,' ...

Duncan Stroik, a leading figure of the traditional sacred architecture revival in the U.S., leans over his firm’s latest ...

Through the uncertainty, the class of 2025 becomes what President Ben Vinson III felt was “the Renaissance.” May 10 marked ...

Are you a history buff seeking a fresh and fascinating discovery on your travels? Look no further than this European town—a ...

Late in his first ... From the Renaissance onwards, this normalised the idea of “formalism” and “appropriateness” in civic architecture. Architects continued to promote revivalism down ...

By building a weird film around Cage and letting him play the normal guy, The Surfer shows that his late-career ride has only just begun. The Surfer opens in theaters now.

The images and captions in these Renaissance and early-modern engravings ... These cells were set up in the Sistine Chapel in late 15th or early-16th century conclaves, when there were 20 or ...

While Renaissance architects reused ancient materials and sometimes entire buildings — including part of the colossal Baths of Diocletian, which Michelangelo redesigned as a Christian basilica ...

The Late Gothic period ... Romanesque architecture eventually evolved into Gothic, swapping thick walls for thin ones and small windows for large ones. The Renaissance, however, reverted back ...

The concept of Western civilization did not develop until the Renaissance. It formed after ... project in Africa and the Americas in the late 15th century. It was always a strange and fragile ...

From the earliest days of the Renaissance, printed catalogues and treatises enabled architects to disseminate their designs to a wide audience, from patrons to builders. The development of print ...

The second section, The Renaissance Imprint, shifts focus to the artistic developments of the Renaissance period, beginning with Donal Cooper’s study of Venice’s Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari.