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Benvenuto Cellini’s "Perseus with the Head of Medusa" is a triumph of Mannerist sculpture. Its legacy is deeply entangled in political and artistic controversy.
Donatello’s David invites many interpretations, but one fact is unanimous: it is the first freestanding nude male sculpture created since antiquity.
Explore 7 masterpieces by Sir Christopher Wren, the architect who rebuilt London after the Great Fire of 1666.
Michelangelo took years to complete the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. The number of figures he composed goes over 700.
During the 19th century, Gothic architecture came to be seen as an ideal representation of Christian moral values.
Discover the roots of ten words that came into the English language from Arabic.
During moments of particularly unprecedented political and social unrest, there are very specific art movements that emerge to give meaning and expression to the unknowable.
The emergent youth culture of the 1950s created a new genre of film in which teenagers were both the subject matter and the target audience.
