Renaissance
Period defined by a new interest in the visible world and attempts to reproduce it in paintings and sculpture, often inspired by the classical world.
Renaissance
Period defined by a new interest in the visible world and attempts to reproduce it in paintings and sculpture, often inspired by the classical world.
Basics to get you started
Why commission artwork during the renaissance?
Florence in the Early Renaissance
The Renaissance in Spain
Early applications of linear perspective
Linear Perspective: Brunelleschi’s Experiment
Oil paint in Venice
How to recognize Italian Renaissance art
Devotional confraternities (scuole) in Renaissance Venice
Saving Venice
Types of renaissance patronage
Guido Mazzoni and Renaissance Emotions
Renaissance watercolors: materials and techniques
The role of the workshop in Italian renaissance art
Greek painters in renaissance Venice
Venetian glass, an introduction
Humanism in renaissance Italy
Humanism in Italian renaissance art
A primer for Italian renaissance art
The Italian renaissance court artist
Art and power: the Dukes of Burgundy
15th-century Flanders, an introduction
Confronting power and violence in the renaissance nude
Printmaking in Europe, c. 1400−1800
Toward the High Renaissance, an introduction
Galileo Galilei
Galileo and the science of nature
Chiaroscuro explained
Linear perspective explained
Atmospheric perspective explained
15th-century Spanish painting, an introduction
The status of the artist in renaissance Italy
The Sack of Rome in 1527
The rise and fall of the Avis dynasty in Portugal, an introduction
The Medieval and Renaissance Altarpiece
The Medici collect the Americas
The life of Christ in medieval and Renaissance art
The Council of Trent and the call to reform art
The Protestant Reformation
Sex, Power, and Violence in the Renaissance Nude
Contrapposto explained
Africa in the European imagination
Iconoclasm in the Netherlands in the 16th century
Retro style in the Italian Renaissance
Leonardo: Anatomist
Raphael, an introduction
The role of the workshop in late medieval and early modern northern Europe
Foreshortening explained
Preparatory drawing during the Italian renaissance, an introduction
What made art valuable, in the Middle Ages and Renaissance vs. now
Manuscripts: major works of art
Leonardo and his drawings
Renaissance woman: Isabella d’Este
Coming Out: Queer Erasure and Censorship from the Middle Ages to Modernity
Who’s who? How to recognize saints…
Conserving Old Master Drawings
Classic, classical, and classicism explained
Musical imagery in the Global Middle Ages
Classical Architecture in Viceregal Mexico
How one-point linear perspective works
The bug that had the world seeing red
Tiny timeline: global Europe
Dante’s Divine Comedy in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance art
The Miracle of the Black Leg
Works of Art
Artists
Michelangelo, The Deluge, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, 1508–12, fresco (Vatican City, Rome; photo: Michelangelo, CC0)
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