Cracks, picks, polish—and teeth. Sounds like dentistry, but the pearly whites here are blocks of Carrara marble.
Dr. David Drogin
Have print, will travel. New technologies of mechanical reproduction allowed Dürer to circulate his artistic ideas.
A-level: Albrecht Dürer’s woodcuts and engravings
Cracks, picks, polish—and teeth. Sounds like dentistry, but the pearly whites here are blocks of Carrara marble.
Quarrying and carving marble
Forget mythology—Cellini makes his skill the subject. Defying skeptics, he cast this upright bronze without flaw.
Benvenuto Cellini, Perseus with the Head of ...
Have print, will travel. New technologies of mechanical reproduction allowed Dürer to circulate his artistic ideas.
Albrecht Dürer’s woodcuts and engravings
We now think of Leonardo as a great painter, but his résumé included mapmaker, engineer, and military strategist.
Leonardo, Letter to the Duke of Milan
Head’s up—that plant’s about to fall! These Roman emperors may seem grave, but there’s plenty to smile at here.
Andrea Mantegna, Camera Picta (Camera degli Sposi)
Who said beauty is skin deep? In the Renaissance, good looks and pale skin signaled interior virtue and purity.
Fra Fillippo Lippi, Portrait of a Man ...
Does that muscular nude look familiar? Figures from classical antiquity make a reappearance.
Nicola Pisano, Pulpit, Pisa Baptistery, and Giovanni ...
Biblical stories, zodiac signs, and scenes of local industry share real estate on the bottom of this bell tower.
Andrea Pisano, Reliefs for the Florence Campanile
You can taste the tears... Rogier captures grieving bodies with meticulousness and compositional rhythm.
Rogier van der Weyden, Deposition
In this defense of images, St. Luke turns his back on the written word to focus on painting
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