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Bowdoin faculty and the Museum’s curatorial staff will investigate the collection in a year-long research project led by Stephen Perkinson, professor of art history and associate dean for academic ...
If there’s one thing that never fails to boost our mood, it’s medieval art! It’s colorful, creative, quirky, and goofy, and ...
In the center of the Bowdoin Gallery, which currently features selections from the Museum's permanent collection of European and American art, is a gleaming case of small, eye-catching medieval and ...
Underpainting—also known as “verdaccio”—helped Medieval and Renaissance artists achieve more natural-looking skin tones with a limited color palette.By painting one color over another ...
Art Institute Expands Display of Arms, Armor, Medieval Art. Clip: 3/22/2017 | 5m 9s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The Art Institute of Chicago unveils new galleries of medieval and Renaissance art.
London's Victoria and Albert Museum claims to be the world's greatest museum of art and design. With artifacts dating back 3000 years, it has a collection so vast that the Museum has not been able ...
To Renaissance scholars, it was a benighted period that made their own time look more civilized by comparison. Many 19th-century artists imagined the Middle Ages as a romantic escape, when people ...
During this period, there was a steady evolution in art, from medieval two-dimensional to more lifelike 3-D. Back in the Middle Ages, altarpieces were far from realistic.
Students will learn to perform historically grounded analysis of art, music, literature, theatre, and philosophy, as well as political and social systems, including genders, race, social class, and ...
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Faculty. The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies relies on the talents, scholarship and research of affiliated faculty across Saint Louis University ...