Simone Martini, “Christ on the Cross,” detail (1340); Fogg Art Museum ... “fleshy breakthrough” in late 13th- and 14th-century Italian Renaissance painting. Installation view of selected ...

While many look to Florence as the creative pulse of early Renaissance art, the new exhibition makes ... perspective that arrived on the scene a century later would look so clarifyingly bold.” ...

Fourteenth-century Venice, with a population of 100,000, was not only one of Europe’s largest cities, but also a wealthy maritime trading hub and a cultural center where the aesthetics of ...

This fall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s highly anticipated ... the oft-overlooked early Renaissance movement that took shape in Siena during the 14th century. Organized in partnership ...

The Renaissance began in Italy during the 14th century, spreading across Europe by the 17th century. This period saw a revival of classical knowledge, art, and architecture inspired by Ancient ...

Things changed in the 21st century. As art ... Sienese Renaissance attractive. Yet in a final triumph, Sienese painting did travel and expand, helping shape the graceful sinuous 14th-15th ...

By Tanya Mohn This article is part of the Fine Arts & Exhibits special section on the art world ... among the 14th- to 17th-century items shown in “Strong Women in Renaissance Italy ...

The altarpiece consists of an 18th-century painting of John of Nepomuk, a 14th-century Czech priest ... uncovered so far comprises a stunning, Renaissance-era altarpiece. On the central panel ...

Spanning from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance in the 14th century, the Middle Ages encompassed a thousand years of social, cultural, and religious upheaval, and — most importantly ...