The Renaissance is often remembered as a period where the arts flourished, and a renewed focus on philosophy and the sciences took hold. However, that does little to address the sheer amount of ...

As Europe emerged from the stagnation of the Middle Ages and the devastation wrought by the bubonic plague, there was a dramatic shift towards new intellectual, artistic, scientific, and economic ...

The world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance. A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores the world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance. In January 1969, the Metropolitan Museum ...

From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...

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 ...

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 ...

With minimal ingenuity, any historical period can be made to dissolve into the ones around it. Take the rock revolution—that great shift which, emerging in the mid-nineteen-fifties and established by ...

A century later, the first African American modernist movement continues to inspire and challenge. By Aruna D’Souza Derek Fordjour, “Masons, Magicians, Showgirls & Kings,” 2022, newspaper mounted on ...

The Ancient Pantheon, Rome / Emperor Hadrian . Image Courtesy of Phil Whitehouse / Flickr On Renaissance humanism, ‘ The evolution of Renaissance Humanism as a method of thinking’…. Attempts by man to ...

The singer and composer Josquin Desprez traversed his time like a diffident ghost, glimpsed here and there amid the splendor of the Renaissance. He is thought to have been born around 1450 in what is ...