From the 14th through the 16th centuries, Europe crackled with energy. Introduction The period in Europe known...
Renaissance
Exploring the Italian city-state of Florence to learn about a number of advances made there during the...
The increased study of plants for artistic purposes during the Renaissance led to the development of the...
Visual access to real women’s bodies was strictly policed in the Renaissance, particularly in Italy. The relationship...
Looking at developments that shaped culture during the period. Introduction Few historical concepts have such powerful resonance...
In renaissance Italy, displays of grief were expected to be moderated. Why Mourning Matters A life-size, terracotta...
Internal virtues, including gender characteristics, were believed to be communicated through outward appearance. Ideal Representative of Masculinity...
Van Helmont was an heir of Paracelsus’s thought and movement who went to lengths in later years...
There was a split between the pure ideal and base reality, between sacred and profane love. In...
The Archivio Storico Diocesano di Lucca does not easily let visitors forget its history or its owner....
The Black Death struck in 1348, 1362, 1368, 1381, and continued even into the 18th century. 1348...
The Byzantine Empire, is one of the most tragically understudied topics in modern American historical curriculum. By...
New research demonstrates that a sculpture is associated with a harrowing episode of anti-Semitic violence in late-1400s...
Study and treatment of a Renaissance altarpiece reveals new details about the artist’s working method, as well...
Venus of Urbino, 1538, Titian. Oil on canvas, 47 in x 65 in. Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi....
Bible, about 1280–90, Bologna, Italy. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig I 11, fol. 248v; National...
Palazzo di Medici-Riccardi / Creative Commons The state was merely a product of these guilds with institutions...
Portrait by Jacopo Pontormo; the laurel branch (il Broncone) was a symbol used also by his heirs /...
Danaë, 1530, Correggio (Antonio Allegri). Oil on canvas; 74 3/16 × 86 13/16 × 4 1/2 in....
Madonna and Child Surrounded by Angels (detail), 1454–56, Jean Fouquet. Oil on panel, 36 1/4 x 32 7/8...
Detail of A carole: shawms and bagpipes played from the gallery to accompany dancers, including Courtesy and...
Same-sex unions are an integral part of the long, complex and hotly contested history of marriage. ...
Exploring the ways in which the law was used to control sex in late medieval and Tudor...
The Scholar with His Student, Anonymous Flemish painter (circle of Gerard Thomas and Balthasar van den Bossche)...
A Tournament Contest from Tournament Book, about 1560–70, unknown illuminator, made in Germany. The J. Paul Getty...
It revolutionized the art of portrait-making. By Afzal Ibrahim / 07.22.2018 Introduction A question often asked –...
Santa Maria Novella (Leon Battista Alberti was responsible for the façade, completed in 1470) By Dr. Sally...
Leon Battista Alberti, Basilica of Sant’Andrea, 1472-90, Mantua (Italy) (photo: Steven Zucker, CC: BY-NC-SA 3.0) By Dr....
Luca Signorelli, The Damned Cast into Hell, 1499-1504, fresco, 23′ wide (San Brizio chapel, Orvieto Cathedral, Orvieto, Italy)...
Giotto’s Last Judgment in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, inspired by Dante Alighieri’s vision of heaven and...