Byzantine art had a significant impact on the Italian Renaissance and the evolution of the cultural boom of the early modern ages.

The program is founded on the principle that an interdisciplinary perspective is the most profitable way to gain an understanding of the formation of early modern Europe and the Mediterranean. In ...

While Florence is often positioned as the center of the Renaissance by art historians, Siena was the site of a phenomenal artistic innovation and activity 1300-1350. Others think that Siena ushered in ...

One could say that some paintings in the exhibition “Siena: The Rising of Painting, 1300-1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are movie stills and posters ... in Europe around 1350 as ...