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Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table
Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help ...
How the Renaissance giants created serenely beautiful art amid a backdrop of political chaos
In 1504, three huge figures of the Renaissance era found themselves in Florence, then a city in turmoil. A fascinating new ...
Death of the Reprobate combines potty humor with high art
Reprobate, a word whose archaic meaning in the Calvinist tradition is “a person damned to hell,” is the perfect mindset to ...
Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance
This year, a team of Times journalists marked the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance with a series examining its ...
Rare Renaissance painting acquired by FAMSF reminds us why permanent collections deserve our attention
In the Legion of Honor’s Renaissance gallery, a new 400-year-old acquisition sparkles with a vibrancy belying its age. San Francisco is the new home to Lavinia Fontana’s 400-year-old painted “Portrait ...
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Curator Virginia Brilliant On the Old Master Women History Chose to Forget
When it comes to Old Master works, many of us think immediately of art made by men ... working in the Early Renaissance all the way through to the Romantic era. It’s just that their work ...