Snakes, frogs, and lizards, oh my! Renaissance artist Bernard Palissy invented rustic pottery to capture (literally) the world of the pond in microcosm
Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank
Patrons mattered during the renaissance. Find out why.
A-level: Types of renaissance patronage
The Iberian Peninsula was a dynamic place in the fourteenth century, with artists from what is today France and Italy arriving in the area, as well as Catalan artists traveling elsewhere.
Ferrer Bassa and the murals of Pedralbes
Francis had great reason to emphasize his wealth and magnanimity. For years he had been at war with the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, a gamble that continued to go poorly for the French king.
The Gallery of Francis I at Fontainebleau ...
A Netherlandish artist, a Middle Eastern apostle, a Spanish queen, and a New York museum.
A Renaissance St. James as pilgrim
Patrons mattered during the renaissance. Find out why.
Types of renaissance patronage
a Flemish painter in the court of a Spanish queen
A miraculous appearance for a queen: Juan ...
Jesus changes water into wine in Renaissance Spain
A wedding and a miracle for the ...
Renaissance author Leon Battista Alberti's ideas about what makes for a good painting would have a lasting influence on the history of art.
Alberti’s revolution in painting
What a camel in New York reveals about medieval Spain.
Camel from San Baudelio de Berlanga
Find out more about why patrons commissioned artworks during the renaissance.
Why commission artwork during the renaissance?
The Spanish Michelangelo? Looking closely at a figure by Alonso Berruguete
Bringing the figure to life
This ivory sculpture of Jesus traveled between three continents, demonstrating the global flow of materials, objects, and Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Christ Crucified, a Hispano-Philippine ivory
Santiago became an important saint in New Spain, recast to convey Spanish dominance over the Indigenous population in the sixteenth century.
Saintly violence? Santiago on Horseback
If you suddenly found yourself the heir to a royal throne that your family members felt belonged to them, then what steps would you take to advertise that you are indeed the rightful inheritor?
Gil de Siloé, The Tomb of Juan ...
What do a cucumber, a fly, figures in turbans, and ancient reliefs tell us about the Madonna and Child?
Do you speak Renaissance? Carlo Crivelli, Madonna ...
In the late sixteenth century, European publications about the Americas had few illustrations, so printmakers felt free to invent imagery about the peoples and lands across the Atlantic.
Johannes Stradanus and Theodoor Galle, “The Discovery ...
The first book ever printed by an American author was Rhetorica Christiana by Diego de Valadés, who was born in Mexico to a Spanish conquistador father and an indigenous mother.
Engravings in Diego de Valadés’s Rhetorica Christiana
Christine de Pizan was an author and intellectual and wasn't afraid to show the strength of women in the early 15th century.
Christine de Pizan and a City of ...
Get to know fifteenth-century Aragonese painting, which draws on Italian and Northern Renaissance influences.
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