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Renaissance painters might have used lenses

Research by a UA optics professor suggests some of the Renaissance’s grand masters had a little help with their paintings. Charles Falco, an optical science professor, said his research shows painters ...
Yahoo

14 Greatest Renaissance Artists That Inspired Future Generations

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credit: Shutterstock. The Renaissance, often hailed as one of the most transformative periods in human history, gave rise to ...
Hyperallergic

New York Times Arts Reporter Copies Renaissance Painter's Wikipedia Entry [Updated]

The media blog Fishbowl New York is reporting that the lead paragraph of a July 25 New York Times article by Carol Vogel bears a striking similarity to the Wikipedia entry for its subject, the ...
Minnesota Daily

Mia exhibit brings renaissance artists to Minneapolis

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) debuted its latest exhibition on Oct. 16: “Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi.” The exhibition marks the first collaboration ...
Artnet

A Haunting Virtuoso of the Renaissance, Tintoretto’s Personal Side Has Remained a Mystery. Now the Met Wants to Change That

This fall marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of the great Italian Renaissance painter Jacobo Tintoretto—but despite his undeniable Old Master pedigree, the artist falls short of household name ...
Hyperallergic

The Internationalism of the Harlem Renaissance

In the galleries of The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I stood just feet away from a room filled with large and magnificent paintings by Aaron ...
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Four forgotten Renaissance women artists who changed European art history

For centuries, Renaissance art history was an exclusive gentlemen’s club with genius men, dramatic patrons, and women mostly appearing as muses, saints, or decorative background figures holding fruit.
PBS

Important Italian Artists Featured in Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty

Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty premieres on PBS on July 8, 2025. The series is narrated by Sophie Okonedo, and features Charles Dance as Michelangelo, Jonny Glynn as Leonardo da Vinci and ...
Artnet

Renaissance Rivals Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael Hit London in a Major Museum Show

If pushed to name three Renaissance artists (or three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael are probably most people’s picks (sorry, Donatello). The three giants of the ...
THE WEEK

Exhibit of the week: Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power

Sixteenth-century Venice was the scene of a “consciousness-altering moment in art history,” said Steven Winn in the San Francisco Chronicle. That becomes obvious from the moment a visitor to this ...
The New York Times

FLORENTINE ART.; THE FLORENTINE PAINTERS OF THE RENAISSANCE: With an Index to Their Works. By Bernhard Berenson, Author of "Venetian Painters of the Renaissance," "Lorenzo ...

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