A compilation of pictorial signs - the motifs, attributes, artistic devices, and themes used by medieval artists to brand or denigrate those figures considered outcasts: Jews, heretics, Muslims, blacks, executioners, prostitutes, lepers, gamblers, foot-soldiers, entertainers, an…
Italian Paintings. Florentine and Tuscan, mid-13th-mid-17th century. Sienese, 14th-mid-16th century. Venetian, mid-14th-early 17th century. Venetian, late 17th-18th century. Lombard, Ligurian, and Piedmontese, 14th-18th century. Emilian and Romagnole, 14th-mid-17th century. Roma…
Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images - the only independent images then in existence - were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration. The faithful believed that these images, through their likeness to the person represented, became a tangible presence of …
Cleopatra of Egypt: from history to myth
"Fabled for her sexual allure and cunning intelligence, Cleopatra VII of Egypt has fascinated generations of admirers and detractors since her tumultuous life ended in suicide on Octavian's capture of Egypt in 30 BC. The last of the Ptolemaic monarchs who had ruled Egypt as Hell…
