Greek mythology sparked the Renaissance, transforming art from religious instruction to profound explorations of human potential.

a rebirth of arts and culture inspired by Greek and Roman antiquity resulted in a humanistic outlook. The Minneapolis Institute of Art's exhibition "Botticelli and Renaissance Florence ...

Cecilie Brøns, who authored the study and works as an archaeologist and curator at the Glyptotek art museum in Copenhagen ... anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including one ...

And thanks to this Roman reverence for all things Greek, much of ancient ... that would inspire Renaissance artists over 1,000 years later in Florence. And this art form is timeless.

Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington. The painting shows a gathering of Roman gods and goddesses ... of the Gods “one of the greatest Renaissance paintings in the United States.” ...

This is because, for centuries, the artistic traditions of the European Renaissance have been the authority of such themes. It was from the 15th to 16th century that “art came to be seen as a br ...