Curated playlist
Renaissance art
- Artists of the Tudor courtElizabeth I reportedly ordered paintings of herself destroyed if they missed her official image.
- Dutch and Flemish Renaissance paintingThe Fall of Icarus, now considered a copy, shows a peasant ploughing as Icarus's legs vanish in the water.
- Renaissance architectureEight different quarters of Florence each built one segment of Brunelleschi's cathedral dome.
- Northern RenaissanceThe Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance of Europe north of the Alps. It arrived later than the Italian Renaissance, and in most respects it only began in the last years of the 15th century. The mountains were more than a line on a…
- Renaissance artRenaissance art began with a bronze door contest in Florence in 1401.
- High RenaissanceThe High Renaissance lasted no more than three decades, by most reckonings.
- Vitruvian ManLeonardo's Vitruvian Man sits in a locked room in Venice, rarely seen by the public. Light would make the drawing fade.
- MannerismYoung artists broke into Michelangelo's house and stole his drawings. Their copying helped launch Mannerism.
- Italian RenaissanceLorenzo the Magnificent survived an assassination attempt at Easter mass in 1478, but his brother Giuliano did not.
- QuattrocentoThe Quattrocento is a century named after a number. Italians say quattrocento for four hundred, a shortened echo of millequattrocento, the word for the year 1400. Historians took that clipped numeral and stretched it over every cultural…