You never know when inspiration will strike. For Chicago-based professional photographer Freddy Fabris, it happened when he stumbled into an auto repair shop while helping his friend get his car fixed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. The Renaissance, often hailed as one of the most transformative periods in human history, gave rise to ...

At first glance, the world of car mechanics and Renaissance paintings have absolutely nothing in common. However, if you think about it, both involve getting your hands dirty and paying attention to ...

What would the Renaissance be without its mysteries and tantalizing gossip? In the spirit of Georgio Vasari's original Renaissance tabloid, The Lives of the Artist, we've compiled a list of the latest ...

Italian researcher Isabella Dalla Ragione has a most unusual job. An “arboreal archaeologist,” Dalla Ragione scours Renaissance paintings and medieval archives, discovering endangered fruits that ...

The Renaissance began in Italy in the 1400s. Newly made scientific discoveries meant that painters were depicting the human form with more anatomical accuracy, but their subjects were often intensely ...

If you’ve ever wanted to see what you might have looked like through the eyes of Rembrandt or Raphael, here’s your chance. A week after interest in the Russian photo app FaceApp spiked, populating our ...

Jan van Eyck, one of the most famous artists of the Renaissance period, and often called the pioneer of the Northern Renaissance was an exceptional painter who served under a King and a Duke in his ...

LONDON -- The London Underground might seem like the furthest thing imaginable from a 16th-century Renaissance painting, but that just depends on how you look at it. London-based photographer Matt ...

Scene from ‘Four Last Things’ (all GIFs and screenshots by the author for Hyperallergic) Forgive me, for I have sinned. I peeped at a lady’s ankle through an open window and carved an idol in my own ...

For centuries, Renaissance art history was an exclusive gentlemen’s club with genius men, dramatic patrons, and women mostly ...