A rare book depicting the sea monk by Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566) in the Smithsonian Libraries dates to 1554. Smithsonian Institution Libraries Pierre Belon (1517-1564) describes the Sea Monk in ...
"Remember Me," now on view at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, unites more than 100 European Renaissance portraits. Pictured here is Albrecht Dürer's 1508 chalk sketch of an unidentified African man.
"This publication accompanies the exhibition Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, held at the Walters Art Museum from October 14, 2012, to January 21, 2013, and at the Princeton ...
When the European astronomer Nicholas Copernicus theorized in the early sixteenth century that the sun, rather than the earth, was at the center of the universe, it was a key moment in the Renaissance ...
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Renaissance Architecture: Everything You Need to Know About This Classic European Style
From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...
Finials of a Chaplet (France or southern Netherlands, 1530 with mid-19th-century insertion) (ca. 1850–1860), elephant ivory (courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum, London) BRUNSWICK, Maine — The first ...
On both sides of the Atlantic last week, men paid homage to a renaissance. “The nations of Western Europe,” said President Kennedy on the Fourth of July in Philadelphia, “long divided by feuds far ...
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