An ancient Greek story on a tapestry made in China, for export back to Portugal.
Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank
An ancient Greek story on a tapestry made in China, for export back to Portugal.
The Abduction of Helen Tapestry
Parra uses a 16th-century friar to comment on 19th-century events, as artists began to make a new art for a new nation.
Félix Parra, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas
A painted and gilded wooden ceiling made in renaissance Spain that was eventually acquired by William Randolf Hearst for Hearst Castle.
Sacred geometry in a mudéjar-style ceiling
A service made for Isabella d'Este, the most important female patron of the Renaissance.
Nicola da Urbino, a dinner service for ...
What a camel in New York reveals about medieval Spain.
Camel from San Baudelio de Berlanga
Located in a high desert, Chaco’s residents dedicated much of their energy to controlling water for crops.
Introduction to Chaco Canyon
Ceramics that shimmer like gold! Lusterware ceramics made in Manises, Spain in the 15th century were some of the most desirable objects of their time.
Lusterware as luxury
Everything seems so perfect... Hang on, what’s that in the foreground? And why is that lute string broken?
The carpet and the globe: Holbein’s The ...
A theatre box in wood, the Sopetrán Lamentation is a stunning 15th-century sculpture from Spain.
The Sopetrán Lamentation in wood
A tapestry showing the abduction of Helen was made in China to be sold in Portugal—and speaks to the complex cultural entanglements of the early 17th century.
The Abduction of Helen tapestry
Ceramics that shimmer like gold! Lusterware ceramics made in Manises, Spain in the 15th century were some of the most desirable objects of their time.
Treasure from Spain, lusterware as luxury
The powerful Medici family of Florence tried—and failed—to make true Chinese porcelain in the 16th century.
Medici porcelain, a failed experiment
A pendant triptych in boxwood and feathers reveals the dynamic global interactions between Europe and the Americas in the 1500s
A Renaissance miniature in wood and feathers
A pendant triptych in boxwood and feathers reveals the dynamic global interactions between Europe and the Americas in the 1500s
A Renaissance miniature in wood and feathers
Mary offers solace and protection to those individuals directly involved in colonization and evangelization
Alejo Fernández, Virgin of the Navigators
If we read Alejo Fernández's The Virgin of the Navigators closely, we can learn an enormous amount about Spain’s role in exploration, trade and commerce, conquest and colonization, and slavery.
Alejo Fernández, The Virgin of the Navigators
What is mannerism, and why did it develop in the 16th century?
Mannerism, an introduction
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
Snakes, frogs, and lizards, oh my!
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