AFP and AP are reporting that the remains of Copernicus have been found at Frombork Cathedral in northern Poland.

The remains were identified by comparing the DNA from the skull and strands of hair from Copernicus’ copy of Johannes Stoeffler’s Calendarium Romanum Magnum.

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through February 16.

“The Belles Heures of the Duke of Berry” is on display at the Getty in Los Angeles through February 8.

“Leonardo da Vinci: Treasures from the Biblioteca Reale in Turin” will be at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, California, through December 28.

Some interesting stories in the Telegraph, BBC News, Independent, and ArtDaily on the new Medieval and Renaissance galleries at the V&A, set to reopen next year.

If it’s not already on your blogroll, check out the “Medieval and Renaissance: Past, Present and Future” blog from the V&A for the current progress of the galleries’ development and related articles.

The Textiles by Benozzo Gozzoli in the Cavalcade of the Magi will be at the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy, through November 16.

The exhibition is of selected historic stones which form the large collection of Anglo-Scandinavian grave monuments – mostly 9th and 10th Century – and the equally large collection of Post Conquest medieval stones, mostly 12th Century. Continue reading this post…

“Fragments,” an exhibit focusing on fragments of objects in the V&A’s metalwork collection, is on display through November 8.

“When They Were Young: Aristocratic Children in European Portraiture” is at Alabama’s Huntsville Museum of Art through January 4.

Strange Ornament from the Renaissance Mind will be at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts through May 3.