Renaissance

F.M. Godfrey describes how, during the fifteenth century, the courtly civilization of Ferrara gave birth to splendid works of art.

Alexander Lee admires an article by Frederick Godfrey from 1952, reflecting new attitudes towards the Renaissance.

Scholar, humanist, aristocrat, Barbaro achieved distinction in many fields, and served the Venetian Republic well, as Alan Haynes records.

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

Da Vinci's scientific observations proved inseparable 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.