From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...

Soar above the historic and elegant city of Ferrara, a jewel of the Italian Renaissance, with this breathtaking drone video.

From this aerial viewpoint the geometric elegance of the Diputación General de Aragón complex unfolds with clarity anchored ...

The world of architecture is a captivating fusion of artistic expression and scientific precision. My journey in the realm of architecture started with a profound exploration of its rich history. It ...

In light of the interest in my recent story about George Ingham Barnett, I thought it might be worthwhile to look into the sort of education a young architect such as he would have received back in ...

In 15th-century Italy, an architect known as Filarete came up with a groundbreaking system for expelling odors from the latrines of a hospital he was designing in Milan. Waste from the toilet rooms in ...

An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City, written by Phillip James Dodd with photography by Jonathan Wallen, is a sumptuous book on an era – roughly from the 1870s to the ...

The styles of Beaux Arts and Italian Renaissance Revival ran on parallel timelines and had similarities. Both were inspired by the classical design elements of ancient Europe — France and Italy, ...

The ellipse is a shape with its own special place in art history. It was instrumental to the developments of compositional perspective and, during the Renaissance, artist-architects including ...

Last month, we explored Chateauesque, one of several revival styles popular during the late 19th century. Next up are Moorish Revival and Venetian Renaissance. Popular between 1880 and 1910, these ...