Renaissance

Confronting Power and Violence in the Renaissance Nude

The Renaissance origins of the male gaze.

The curator discusses a groundbreaking exhibition on the nude human figure in Renaissance art.

A new exhibition asks difficult questions about sex, violence, and beauty in Renaissance art.

Jill Burke | October 25, 2018

A new look at the rise of the nude in art.

Thomas Kren | October 9, 2018

The music, and manuscripts, of Renaissance court life.

Larisa Grollemond | October 2, 2018

Paintings move around the museum on a weekly basis—why?

Kevin Torres-Spicer | September 6, 2018

Glimpse the origins of the discipline of art history in this discussion of three short biographies by Giorgio Vasari.

Explore paintings by a Renaissance master with two curators.

Renaissance meanings of popular garden flowers.

Tristan Bravinder | December 20, 2017

The tale of a ceramic Renaissance dish and its tiny twin.

Linnea Seidling | November 8, 2017

Research into Architecture of Renaissance Hospitals

Once thought a casualty of the 1966 Florentine flood, Vasari’s The Last Supper is back on view.

Antoine Wilmering | November 4, 2016