By that time, architecture since the Renaissance was considered a liberal art, not a craft, as it had been deemed during the Middle Ages. The shift was the result of two books that were required ...

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 ...

As famous as the Renaissance palace they surround, the gardens of the French Academy in Italy have just been redesigned by ...