Holbein’s tiny portrait projects us into a private moment in the life of an ordinary middle-class woman living in the reign of Henry VIII.
Using imagery in science can give students and the general public access to a deeper understanding of the natural world.
The celebrated Florentine painter, Cimabue, was outwitted by his young apprentice potentially triggering a new era in Italian Art.
Nicola Porpora’s “Carlo il Cavo” (Charles the Bald) focuses on Machiavellian court manoeuvres over the succession following the death of Charlemagne.
One of the most accomplished painters of the Florentine Renaissance, Bronzino’s “Allegory of Venus and Cupid” is a bafflingly beautiful work of art.
Burckhardt’s The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy is a totemic text for cultural historians. Written in 1860, it sketches the sociological portrait of an
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