The selection on loan to Bowdoin College Museum of Art will include: Over eighty examples of metalwork, stone and wood sculpture, and illuminated manuscripts from the European Middle Ages and ...

Thus, for example, “The Renaissance Nude” contains a number of different examples of the St. Sebastian theme, including works by Messina, Moderno, and Hans Holbein the Elder. As the patron ...

A new show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts charts the competition among the three giants of 16th-century Venetian art Titian brought the Renaissance nude into its full glory. Here the Godess of ...

This is because, for centuries, the artistic traditions of the European Renaissance have been the authority of such themes. It was from the 15th to 16th century that “art came to be seen as a br ...