All posts tagged "fifteenth century"
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Great Britain
The Yorkists by Anne Crawford
June 9, 2022To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English...
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Art
Two New York City Exhibits Explore the Art and Culture of Renaissance Venice
April 28, 2022The Venetians during the Renaissance were a confident and resilient people. Even as their dominions were...
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Art
Art Review: The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
August 23, 2021In his Portrait of a Young Man, painted in 1478, Antonello fused the psychological intensity of...
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Art
Art Review: Albrecht Dürer: Virtuoso Printmaker at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
July 19, 2020The earlier prints from each series are flatter, the lines more bold and calligraphic, the details...
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Fiction Reviews
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
May 28, 2020Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...