New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters ... essays explores whether this early play was monastic or secular, its Anglo-Norman character, and the text's musical provenance. This book ...

Empowered by new wealth and inspired by the humanist fascination with the individual, patrons of art in the early period of the Renaissance began asserting themselves into commissioned works of ...

A number of forms were developed in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Structures in the Renaissance period were mainly based on the text being used. Religious music was written to be sung by ...

So clearly it was learned early on in human history that art as personal adornment enhanced your status. Modern politicians use political techniques invented by rulers of old, but instead of paint ...

In new book, UChicago’s Ada Palmer explores popular misunderstandings of the Renaissance and historical myths used for ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The 16th century was an age of exploration in all senses of the term, a period when colossal advances in ...

Following more than five decades of repression under the Assad regime, these artists are seizing the moment of cultural ...

Many of us are still pained by his early demise 20 years ... in China to propose the "greater art" concept and put his ideas into practice. In the latter period of his career, he founded an ...

The exciting new groundbreaking book by George M. Johnson, "Flamboyants: the Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known," is an empowering book written specifically for high school students, but one ...

From Botticelli’s Venus to Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, we’re all familiar with the beauty hallmarks of Renaissance period art; think soft, feminine curves, alabaster skin and cascading ...