A study of 15th and 16th century painting and sculpture north of the Alps including artists such as Jan van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch, Jean Fouquet and Albrecht Dürer. This course considers how social ...

The primacy of the nude in Renaissance art is often framed in terms of a static cultural narrative in which the classically inspired figures of 15th-century Italy were opposed by the more ...

Somewhere in Cambridge at a MIT lab, a 15th-century painting depicting a Renaissance infant, once thought too damaged to ...

Like their 15th-century counterparts, contemporary artists continue to enjoy the patronage of the church. Like their 15th-century ... the creative genius of the Italian Renaissance lives on.

Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art uses the cost of a cow to consider the worth of 16th-century objects. by Allison Meier November 20 ...

Multisided portraiture emerged in the Netherlands in the early 15th century, then spread to Italy and elsewhere in Northern Europe. According to Nogueira, the practice built on traditions dating ...

The Met’s ‘Renaissance of Etching’ Exhibition Makes 15th Century Problems Look Oddly Relatable The village idiot, for example, was a favorite subject of artists working around the time of ...