Renaissance art

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...

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

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),...

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

Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florences art world, he wa...

Illustrious turning point Augsburg as the centre of the German Renaissance. Hans Holbein the Elder and Hans Burgkmair are regarded alongside Al...

This book is an original, cogent account of the singular Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522), providing a concise survey of his life wit...