Simone Martini, “Christ on the Cross,” detail (1340); Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (photo Daniel Larkin/Hyperallergic) Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350, an examination of Siena’s ...
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington DC is one of the world’s finest museums. The collection contains works from the early Italian Renaissance ...
A startling recent theory that Renaissance artists 500 years ago may have used secret optical projectors to enhance realism will be examined in a physics talk Thursday (Nov. 12). David Stork, chief ...
From ancient times until at least the early Renaissance, art, science and spirituality were considered part of a magical totality in which all things were alive. Even language was fluid. In ancient ...
In revisiting early modern European history, artists and designers are finding old ways to address contemporary anxieties. By Rachel Wetzler The Algerian Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz’s new film, ...
An early Renaissance masterpiece by the Florentine master Cimabue has been discovered in an old lady's kitchen in a town near Paris, art experts said Monday. "Christ Mocked", by the 13th-century ...
Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome. Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome. This rebirth of classical culture showed itself ...
John Lansdowne and Stephanie Leone are both Boston College art professors—but one specializes in medieval art, and the other in Renaissance art. For the McMullen Museum of Art’s latest exhibit, ...
What’s old is new again in a special exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art connecting Italian early modern art with contemporary fashions from Versace, Armani, Ferragamo and others. Hoop skirts, ...
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