Curated category
Renaissance art
- Artists of the Tudor courtArtists of the Tudor court shaped how England's most powerful dynasty chose to be seen. Between 1485 and 1603, from the accession of Henry VII to the death…
- Dutch and Flemish Renaissance paintingIn the early 1500s, Antwerp stood as the most important artistic centre in the Low Countries. Artists flocked to this bustling port city to work for European…
- Renaissance architectureRenaissance architecture was born in Florence in the early decades of the 1400s, and it did not creep into existence the way Gothic had slowly grown out of…
- Northern RenaissanceThe Northern Renaissance began in the last years of the 15th century, occurring north of the Alps. This movement developed later than its Italian counterpart…
- Renaissance artRenaissance art spans a remarkable period from roughly 1350 to 1620, and its story begins with a single bronze door competition in Florence in 1401.
- High RenaissanceThe phrase High Renaissance first appeared in German as Hochrenaissance during the year 1855. Jacob Burckhardt coined this label to describe a specific era…
- Vitruvian ManThe Vitruvian Man sits in a locked room on the fourth floor of the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, rarely seen by the public eye.
- MannerismMannerism is the art style born from a crisis of success. By the early years of the 16th century, painters and sculptors working in the Italian High…
- Italian RenaissanceIn 1550, the Italian historian Giorgio Vasari published Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, and in it he reached for a single…
- QuattrocentoIn the late Middle Ages, money replaced land as the primary measure of wealth across Italy. Urban centers arose in places like Florence and Venice, populated…