Simone Martini, “Christ on the Cross,” detail (1340); Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (photo Daniel Larkin/Hyperallergic) Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350, an examination of Siena’s ...
What’s old is new again in a special exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art connecting Italian early modern art with contemporary fashions from Versace, Armani, Ferragamo and others. Hoop skirts, ...
A survey of this giant of Renaissance art opens this month at the Met. Three experts show us why he matters as much as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. By Blake Gopnik For centuries, the ...
With minimal ingenuity, any historical period can be made to dissolve into the ones around it. Take the rock revolution—that great shift which, emerging in the mid-nineteen-fifties and established by ...