Cammy Brothers

A sweeping show at the Met focuses on the Tuscan city’s pivotal role in Renaissance art, where painters such as Duccio and Simone Martini depicted religious scenes in vibrant detail and with stirring emotional acuity.

Classical architecture harks back to Greco-Roman building traditions—and has a stubborn association with political power.

An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art reunites the components of several works from the era—which were often double-sided or fitted with movable covers—and thus reveals deeper meanings rich with symbolism and ambiguity.

London’s National Gallery mounts a small but delightful show about the 15th-century painter who, in his work for the Medici and other leading families, encapsulated the best of his era’s artistic achievements.

The first show of its kind in Florence in almost 40 years offers an exceptional opportunity to get to know this versatile Renaissance artist.

Cammy Brothers on books about Leonardo, Pablo Picasso and African-American art.

The Met’s exhibition shows how the master used drawing to experiment, refine and expand his work—both on and off the page.

His Laurentian Library toys with traditional forms, challenging our expectations of what buildings can do.