Aug 1, 2007 · The resurgence of portraiture was thus a significant manifestation of the Renaissance in Europe. The earliest Renaissance portraits were not paintings in their own …

Jun 6, 2024 · The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.

Jul 22, 2021 · What’s the earliest known portrait? Some say it’s a sculpted piece of mammoth ivory from the last ice age, a 27,000-year-old cave painting in Vilhonneur, France, or a …

Aug 24, 2016 · Portraiture is about expressing the concept of a person. Sometimes a portrait might be the absence of a person, focusing instead on their belongings or environment. No …

Mar 14, 2012 · Written by a team of international scholars, The Renaissance Portrait provides new insight into the early history of portraiture in Italy, examining in detail how its major art …

Oct 1, 2003 · The development of Roman portraiture is characterized by a stylistic cycle that alternately emphasized realistic or idealizing elements. Each stage of Roman portraiture can …

Oct 1, 2003 · Portraiture has played a dominant role in England since the Renaissance, when the arts declaimed the legitimacy of the Tudor dynasty, while the Protestant Reformation effected …

Oct 13, 2022 · Featuring a dazzling selection of prints and drawings ranging in date from the early seventeenth century to the present and including several new acquisitions, the current …

Jun 6, 2024 · What do Taylor Swift and Vincent van Gogh have in common? According to art historian Kathryn Calley Galitz’s new book, How to Read Portraits, they are both masters of …

In the words of cultural historian Jacob Burckhardt, fifteenth-century Italy was "the place where the notion of the individual was born." In keeping with that idea, early Renaissance Italy was a …