Hosted on MSN1d
Drawing the Italian Renaissance: Raphael never seemed so beautifully ordinary
This is the down-to-earth subject of a 15th-century sketch by an unidentified Florentine artist ... between 1450 and 1600, the 81 artists in this show deployed to astonishingly diverse effect. Sticks ...
Smithsonian Magazine17d
Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table
In fact, Dalla Ragione has spent more than a decade scouring the masterpieces of 15th- and 16th-century art for answers to one of the great questions of Italian agriculture: Whatever happened to ...
Cambridge University Press12mon
The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy
The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy surveys the sculptural production created by a range of artists throughout the peninsula. It offers a comprehensive overview of Italian sculpture during ...
New York Sun1mon
New Study Discloses Christopher Columbus’s Jewish Heritage — in Time for Indigenous Peoples’ Day
The famed 15th century Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus, was a Sephardic Jew, according to a new study out of Spain that took more than two decades to complete. The historic disclosure ...
The New York Times20d
Clark Art Institute Receives ‘Princely’ Collection of European Treasures
Tavitian Foundation: a trove of 331 works by revered European artists of the 15th through the 19th centuries ... including the 16th-century Italian painter Jacopo da Pontormo (“Portrait ...