Italian Art for Travelers
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St. Catherine of Siena, was a gutsy fourteenth century history making woman. She was determined to make a difference, even with doubters and

Renaissance hair served dual functions. Hair beautified the individual and indicated well-being and character. The length and style of hair

If you visit Italy you can’t miss the frescoes. Fresco paintings decorate castles, Roman villas, public buildings, and of course,...

Fascists cherry picked iconic images as the perfect foil for disseminating concepts of cultural purity and superiority. The role of Fascism

Suffering Madonna overload in museums and churches? Are paintings of Annunciations starting to look the same? Now for something...

It was a gruesome site: a woman’s partially decomposed head eerily lit behind a metal screen. Her name is Caterina Benincasa, better...

Nothing brings on analysis paralysis like trying to decide on a paint color. Which shade of blue should I paint the bathroom? The sheer...

How Vincent van Gogh and a Roman Missal led me to study art history. From the graceful ornate elegance of the 1400s, to the classic figural

Don’t like big museums? Overwhelmed by tourists in Florence? Here are four delightful small towns in Tuscany, perfect for those who don’t li

Three sites tell the story of St. Francis of Assisi as he began a radical new way of preaching and serving people and in the process challen

The plague had a profound psychological, economic, artistic, and spiritual impact. There were many bouts of plague, usually peaking in the h

There were a few artists that stretched the limits of tradition and broke boundaries. Their innovations were not immediately taken up by oth

St. Sebastian holds an important place in the Middle Ages and Renaissance as he was the patron saint of the plague, which devastated the pop