Catherine de Medici Signs the Edict of Amboise
The civil war between Roman Catholics and Huguenots reached a brief peace on March 19th, 1563.
Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci: A Note on the Relation Between His Science and His Art
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.
Classical Dress and the Italian Renaissance
Stella Mary Pearce uses the example of the Renaissance to reflect on the links between interesting times and their fashions.
The Pictorial Records of the Medicis
F.M. Godfrey sifts through diverse depictions of Italy's Renaissance family.
Leon Battista Alberti: a Renaissance Personality
Sir Kenneth Clark discovers echoes of both ancient and modern in a true Renaissance man.
Painting and History: The Golden Age of Holland
W.R. Jeudwine accounts for the patrons, masters and masterpieces of the Northern Renaissance
Roger van der Weyden and the Court of Burgundy
F.M. Godfrey describes the life of an important late medieval painter of royal subjects.
The Eagle and the Viper: Lodovico Il Moro of Milan, A Renaissance Tyrant
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
Panipat: The Mughals Strike Twice
The two 16th-century battles of Panipat are little known in the West. But they were pivotal in establishing the Mughal Empire as the dominant power of northern India.
Jan Gossaert: Northern Light
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’.