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Late Gothic
Once known as the proto-Renaissance, this period saw the impact of the Black Death beginning in 1348 but also the continued development of Humanism, the growth of cities, education, and economic prosperity.
Basics to get you started
The Black Death
Florence in the Late Gothic period, an introduction
Dante’s Divine Comedy in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance art
The Medieval and Renaissance Altarpiece
Illustrating a 15th-century Italian altarpiece
The life of Christ in medieval and Renaissance art
The medieval calendar
Musical imagery in the Global Middle Ages
Gothic architecture explained
Gothic architecture, an introduction
Illumination of Jewish biblical texts
Remaking a fourteenth-century triptych
Coming Out: Queer Erasure and Censorship from the Middle Ages to Modernity
Who’s who? How to recognize saints…
The bestiary (book of beasts) in the medieval world, an introduction
Decorating the book
Architecture and liturgy
Images of African Kingship, Real and Imagined
Listening to the medieval book
Making books for profit in medieval times
Making Manuscripts: The Page
Manuscripts: major works of art
Mapping the world
Medieval books in leather (and other materials)
Medieval churches: sources and forms
Medieval goldsmiths
Medieval manuscripts, an introduction
Medieval notepads
Medieval supermodels
Medieval synagogues in Toledo, Spain
Skins and scraps
Saving Venice
The work of the scribe
Travel, trade and exploration in the Middle Ages
Venetian glass, an introduction
Written in the Stars: Astronomy and Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts
Pilgrimage souvenirs
The Miracle of the Black Leg
Works of Art
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Giotto, Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel, 1305-06, fresco (Padua; photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
