Like a social media post, Pisanello's portrait of Leonello d'Este is all a carefully constructed fiction
Northern Italy 1400s Venice Ferrara Marches
Cosmè Tura’s Roverella altarpiece, though known to us only in its current fragmentary state, speaks to the vibrancy and sophistication of late fifteenth-century Ferrarese art.
Cosmè Tura, Roverella Altarpiece
Mazzoni, one of the foremost terracotta sculptors of Northern Italy during the Renaissance, incarnates clay with the spirit of a living person
Guido Mazzoni, Head of a Man
The surviving decorations of Schifanoia offer modern viewers a precious glimpse of the splendorous forms that once adorned the d’Este’s numerous palaces and villas
Sala dei Mesi (Hall of the Months) ...
Mantegna was fascinated by perspective. His radical foreshortening and realism focus attention on Christ’s wounds.
Andrea Mantegna, Dead Christ
Bellini zooms in on three figures—the Virgin Mary, Christ, and John—to create a sense of our being with them after Christ's death
Giovanni Bellini, Brera Pietà
A painting shows life on the Grand Canal of Venice, including Black gondoliers
Vittore Carpaccio, Miracle of the Relic of ...
Gentile Bellini's portrait of Mehmed II has been re-interpreted and understood many times since it was produced nearly 550 years ago.
Gentile Bellini, Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II
A masterpiece lost to American bombs during World War II
Mantegna, St. James Led to his Execution
What are Persian carpets, a peacock, and a cucumber doing in a painting of The Annunciation?
Carlo Crivelli, The Annunciation with Saint Emidius
Clay becomes flesh in the remarkable terracotta sculptures of Italian renaissance artist Guido Mazzoni.
Guido Mazzoni, Lamentation in Ferrara
Guido Mazzoni created some of the most emotionally affecting life-size terracotta sculptures during the renaissance.
Guido Mazzoni and Renaissance Emotions
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 ...
Venice is famous for its glass production
Venetian glass, an introduction
Printing and publishing in fifteenth century Venice, the Silicon Valley of its day
Aldo Manuzio (Aldus Manutius): inventor of the modern ...
Brotherhoods lent stability to religious and civic life. These wealthy institutions also commissioned paintings.
Devotional confraternities (scuole) in Renaissance Venice
10 inches—that’s how far Venice has sunk. As sea levels and tourism rise, can this historic city survive?
Saving Venice
This canvas was rolled, varnished, reworked, and revised again. A classical scene, it once hung in a study.
Giovanni Bellini and Titian,The Feast of the ...
Now in Technicolor! Mantegna’s saturated paint and vivid illusionism bring the Court of Heaven to life.
Andrea Mantegna, San Zeno Altarpiece
Their island climate didn’t suit fresco, so the Venetians tried oils instead—these paints blend when wet.
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