Renaissance

The civil war between Roman Catholics and Huguenots reached a brief peace on March 19th, 1563.

Da Vinci's scientific observations proved inseperable from his intentions as a painter, Kenneth Clark writes. But as a disciple of experience ahead of his time, the impracticability of Da Vinci's visions would come to haunt him.

Stella Mary Pearce uses the example of the Renaissance to reflect on the links between interesting times and their fashions.

F.M. Godfrey sifts through diverse depictions of Italy's Renaissance family.

Sir Kenneth Clark discovers echoes of both ancient and modern in a true Renaissance man.

W.R. Jeudwine accounts for the patrons, masters and masterpieces of the Northern Renaissance

F.M. Godfrey describes the life of an important late medieval painter of royal subjects.

The Italian prince who boasted that the Pope was his chaplain, and the Emperor his condottiere, ended his days in 1508, forgotten in a foreign prison

Jan Gossaert made his name working for the Burgundian court and was among the first northern artists to visit Rome, writes Susan Foister, curator of 'Jan Gossaert's Renaissance', the only exhibition in more than 45 years of works by this archetypal ‘Old Master’.

At what point did it begin to matter what you wore? Ulinka Rublack looks at why the Renaissance was a turning point in people’s attitudes to clothes and their appearance.

Miri Rubin explores the medieval galleries at the V&A and the British Museum.

Lucy Wooding introduces a highly significant, but often much misunderstood, cultural force.

R.J. Knecht looks at the ­practical considerations behind the smooth operation of the huge courts of the Valois kings of France.