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The Renaissance polymath Leon Battista Alberti asked his contemporaries to consider that painting is grounded in mathematics, that architecture manifests and produces social order, that fame is ...
That sort of cross-pollination of artistic, technical, and scientific creativity during the Italian Renaissance is the focus of Ng’s research. His new book, “Form and Fortification: The Art of ...
In 15th-century Italy, an architect known as Filarete came up with a groundbreaking system for expelling odors from the latrines of a hospital he was ...
Sadly, those great 19th-century novelists weren’t around during the Renaissance. So it fell to another variety of artist to commemorate the battle.
Antonio Solario's 'Madonna and Child', a long-sought after Italian Renaissance masterpiece has finally returned home to the Civic Museum of Belluno after more than 50 years. But, in order for it to ...