Ikon Gallery's retrospective asserts that Carlo Crivelli’s self-reflexiveness and questioning the nature of the image made him anticipate the “contemporary.” No matter how you look at it, though, the ...

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Simone Martini, “Christ on the Cross,” detail (1340); Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (photo Daniel Larkin/Hyperallergic) Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350, an examination of Siena’s ...

What did it mean to go viral at the height of the Renaissance? In Northern Belgium, which underwent a meteoric socioeconomic boom between the 15th and 18th centuries, it was through art, as a budding ...

“The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” on view at the Met. Photo: Courtesy The Met Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen The first thing you’re likely to read about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ...

Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome. Around 1400, Europe rediscovered the aesthetics of ancient Greece and Rome. This rebirth of classical culture showed itself ...

Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may have cracked one using chemistry and physics. Around the turn of the 15th century in Italy ...

A treasure trove of classical European art has come to Miami, and it’s being shown in an improbable place: a Jesuit preparatory school. On Tuesday afternoon, teachers and faculty at Belen Jesuit ...

An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, examines how women faced barriers to equality but often overcame them to contribute to the culture of the era. By Tanya Mohn This article is part of ...

Portrait of a Gentleman, His Daughter and a Servant at the Musée de la Chartreuse in Douai, France Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP via Getty Images Imagine walking down a street and running into a childhood ...

Allison Robinson is an associate curator for a unique exhibit at the New York Historical Society Museum and Library, one that ...