Apocalyptic prophecies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Europe often involved Saturn-Jupiter conjunctions, says historian Laura Ackerman Smoller. Astronomers and amateur star gazers alike are ...

The 15th and 16th centuries were full of people both commoners and nobility who had a fascination with magic. The superstitious era of the Middle Ages, and the propaganda of the Inquisition eventually ...

When the European astronomer Nicholas Copernicus theorized in the early sixteenth century that the sun, rather than the earth, was at the center of the universe, it was a key moment in the Renaissance ...

"Remember Me," now on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, unites more than 100 European Renaissance portraits. Pictured here is Albrecht Dürer's 1508 chalk sketch of an unidentified African man.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Brunelleschi's ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the ...

Finials of a Chaplet (France or southern Netherlands, 1530 with mid-19th-century insertion) (ca. 1850–1860), elephant ivory (courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum, London) BRUNSWICK, Maine — The first ...