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The allure of Rome / Carol M. Richardson -- Netherlandish networks / Kim W. Woods -- Tapestries as a transnational artistic commodity / Elizabeth Cleland -- Siena and its Renaissance / Diana Norman -- ...

The recovery of the artistic ideals of classical antiquity between 1400 and 1600 was hardly the only major period of cultural ...

The book, where the concept of the “Renaissance (rinascita, rebirth of antiquity)” first appeared, is considered the starting ...

Intermedia artist Joe Nolan has covered a wide range of art and film for the Nashville Scene. In his new book Nowville, he tells the story of Nashville’s contemporary art renaissance with a lively ...

A book by Renaissance scholar Emanuele Lugli tells the story of Lavinia Fontana, who found rare success in the 1500s as a woman artist. An exhibition about the book is on view at Stanford through Dec.

Giorgione’s Three Philosophers traveled some 4,220 miles from Vienna to be reunited with Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert in New York after more than four centuries on different continents ...

Professor Leone’s research focuses on the city of Rome in the early modern period (1400-1800), which provides endless opportunities to study the intersection of art and society. She is interested in ...

THE MAN or THE RENAISSANCE—Ralph Roeder—Viking ($3.50). History, defined politely as “the formal record of the past,” is really organized gossip; but among the historians who retail it there are ...

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 ...