Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2d
How to Use Renaissance Paintings to Improve the Farming of Tomorrow
An arboreal archaeologist roots around the Italian countryside and in centuries-old frescoes for a cornucopia of fruits long ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2mon
See the Breathtaking 14th-Century Sienese Artworks That Helped Set the Italian Renaissance in Motion
A new exhibition at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is brimming with opulent religious panel paintings ...
Times Argus23d
Did the Renaissance really begin in Florence?: ‘Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350’
One could say that some paintings in the exhibition “Siena ... that killed millions in Europe around 1350 as an exceptional moment at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance in defining Western painting.
BBC2mon
The journey of a painting from Florence to Oxford
Ashmolean director Dr Xa Sturgis described the painting as "both very calm, but also very charged" Museum staff have shared the history of a rare Italian renaissance painting they managed to save ...
Drawing the Italian Renaissance at the King’s Gallery review: from Leonardo’s dragons to Raphael’s Graces this is a splendid show
Obviously, they used sketches as preparation for paintings but they also had ... The title of the exhibition is Drawing the ...
Greek Reporter8d
How Byzantine Art Influenced the Italian Renaissance
Byzantine art had a significant impact on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution of the cultural boom of the early modern ages.