A study of 15th and 16th century painting and sculpture north of the Alps including artists such as Jan van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch, Jean Fouquet and Albrecht Dürer. This course considers how social ...

So, too, the weavings (c. 1528-31) in “Art and War in the Renaissance: The Battle of Pavia Tapestries,” on loan as a complete set to the U.S. for the first time from the Capodimonte Museum in ...

Molly Faries, an expert in the field of technical investigation of paintings, presents a lecture that documents the innovative research used to study a selection of the Art Institute’s Old ...

The authors of these five volumes from Laurence King have, over the past three years, written books that bear essentially the same titles as five volumes in the Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Random House ...

Albrecht Dürer, born in 1471 in Nuremberg, Germany, is a towering figure in the history of art, renowned for his contributions as a painter, printmaker, and theorist. His works are pivotal in ...

Exhibiting a painting by the Renaissance master Raphael has generally been reserved for the world’s most famous art venues, such as the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New ...

That's clear in Europe's Northern Renaissance. In Germany, the spirit of the age thrived in merchant towns like Rothenburg, which looks today much like it did in the 1500s.

That the Renaissance took place north as well as south of the Alps is not news, but in his enlightening and fascinating study, “The Other Renaissance,” Paul Strathern demonstrates the weight ...

Could an epic work in a church in Port Glasgow be a lost masterpiece by one of the great painters of Northern Renaissance art, or is this depiction of Christ a much lesser work? Show more Fiona ...

Durer was born in 1471 in Nuremberg, when the city was part of the Holy Roman Empire and became a key figure of the Northern Renaissance. He knew renowned Italian artists including Raphael and ...

Dürer, born in 1471, became one of the most famous Renaissance artists in Northern Europe. He is best known for his woodcuts and engravings such as this one, ...