If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity. What were the ...

Renaissance writers reassessed their history, inventing terms like the Dark Ages — to the eternal chagrin of medievalists — ...

Walk through any major art museum’s historical galleries and you’ll likely encounter paintings created with egg tempera, ...

The mathematics underpinning the modern method of elliptic curve cryptography originated with Renaissance architect Filippo Brunelleschi ...

The show rightly avoids the bias toward Florence in early Renaissance narratives ... culminating in what art historian Michael Baxandall once called the Period Eye. Other art historians dismiss ...

Giovanni Bellini: The Art of Contemplation (2018) by Johannes Grave “In this magnificently illustrated volume, Johannes Grave approaches the work of Giovanni Bellini from a fresh perspective.

These are the Renaissance-era Pavia Tapestries ... Associate Curator of European Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The venue is one of only a handful in the United States that will ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is showcasing visual artists from the Harlem Renaissance in the exhibition ... really flourished during that time period. Paintings from Laura Wheeler Waring ...

In this sense, Death of the Reprobate might be a more nuanced way to contextualize the Renaissance era. Sure, there weren’t talking monkeys, but it wasn’t all just art and sculptures.

We’ve gathered dozens of images, many that we’ve never published, showing the people and the art that they created ... Read the article The Harlem Renaissance was a period of unprecedented ...