One could say that some paintings in the exhibition “Siena: The Rising of Painting, 1300-1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are movie stills and posters. They look like photographs ...

Historian Alexander Bevilacqua joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultural rebirth which came to be known as The Renaissance. When did The Renaissance begin? What was it ...

With minimal ingenuity, any historical period can be made to dissolve into the ones around it. Take the rock revolution—that great shift which, emerging in the mid-nineteen-fifties and established by ...