Taiteen historia

Domenikos Theotokopoulos, widely known as El Greco (The Greek), was a leading painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. El Greco's style was enriched with …

The Venetian painter known as Giorgione or ‘big George’ died at a young age in the dreadful plague of 1510, possibly having painted fewer than 25 works. But many of these are among …

Zorzi da Castelfranco, known as Giorgione: an artist who has so few confirmed works attributed to him, and about whose life little is known. Yet, after a career span of just over …

In this authoritative study, Alison Cole explores the distinctive uses of art at the five great secular courts of Naples, Urbino, Ferrara, Mantua and Milan. The princes who ruled …

The Italian Renaissance is conventionally thought of as the historical period that bore witness to the rise of the individual. Yet no other artist of the time begins to compare …

More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even …

A comprehensive survey of the work of this most influential Florentine artist and teacherAndrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435–1488) was one of the most versatile and inventive artists of …

A new study of the early Renaissance portraitIn fourteenth-century Italy, ever more women and men—not only clergy but also laity—introduced their own portraits into sacred …

Hans Baldung Grien war einer der außergewöhnlichsten deutschen Künstler der Renaissance. In einer Epoche tiefgreifender Umwälzungen schuf er ein vielfältiges und eigenständiges …

Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period. …