All posts tagged "fifteenth century"
Art & Design
Art Review: Albrecht Dürer: Virtuoso Printmaker at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
May 23, 2025The earlier prints from each series are flatter, the lines more bold and calligraphic, the details...
Fiction Reviews
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
March 23, 2025Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Yorkists by Anne Crawford
February 3, 2025To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English...
Art
Two New York City Exhibits Explore the Art and Culture of Renaissance Venice
December 23, 2024The Venetians during the Renaissance were a confident and resilient people. Even as their dominions were...
Art
Art Review: The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
June 14, 2024In his Portrait of a Young Man, painted in 1478, Antonello fused the psychological intensity of...