"I strove to imitate nature as clearly as I could, and with all the perspective I could produce," wrote sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti of the gilded bronze doors he created for Florence's Baptistery.

Nearly 600 years after their creation and far from home, three priceless 15th-century gilded bronze reliefs by Renaissance master Lorenzo Ghiberti are on view in Seattle. They are from a set of 10 ...

Sometimes it takes a little animosity to fuel the creative fires, and in The Feud That Sparked The Renaissance, Paul Robert Walker argues that sometimes those fires can become an inferno. At the turn ...

Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) was a talented sculptor, but that hardly meant a rarity in Florence in the 14 th and 15 th centuries. In those days, the Renaissance blossoming in ...

The structure atop Florence's main cathedral was the greatest engineering feat of the Renaissance. To appreciate it, climb inside. Glimpse Brunelleschi's dome from the narrow streets of Florence and ...