History of Art & Design Styles: c 1400 to c 1600

What was the role of art in the context of rapidly changing political alliances of the early modern period? The interdisciplinary contributions to ...

What was the role of art in the context of rapidly changing political alliances of the early modern period? The interdisciplinary contributions to ...

Um den sozialen Status der Architekten zu erhöhen, postulierten architekturtheoretische Traktate des 16. Jahrhunderts eine weitestmögliche Ferne de...

Der Würzburger Fürstbischof Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn (15451617) setzte um 1600 seiner höfischen Repräsentation bis zu 300 Sakralbauten an die ...

A brisk and entertaining (Wall Street Journal) journey into the mystery behind why the forbidden fruit became an apple, upending an explanation tha...

Art and science they may seem like opposites, but throughout history there have been visionaries who have brought together these contrasting subje...

The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes ...

In this vivid account Ana Debenedetti examines the life and work of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, through the lens of the organization of h...

Leonhart Fuchs (15011566,) was a founding father of modern botany, honored to this day in the vivid flower, and corresponding color, Fuchsia. In 15...

Émile Verhaeren (18551916), art critic, poet and homme de lettres, was a man whose vision transcended his native Belgium. With close ties to Mallar...

In From Giotto to Botticelli, Julia Miller and Laurie Taylor-Mitchell explore the three-hundred-year rise and fall of the Humiliati (Humbled Ones),...

During the early modern period, objects of maritime material culture were removed from their places of origin and traded, collected and displayed w...

Between 1350 and 1650, a vast number of bronze objects, both large and small, decorative and functional, were produced in Venice for domestic consu...

The permanent exhibition in the north wing of Dresdens Royal Palace presents the surviving, magnificent vestments from the possessions of the Saxon...