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The Renaissance is often imagined as a period of European artistic and intellectual flourishing, yet its depictions frequently erase the presence of Black Africans who lived in cities like Venice, ...

The idea that man simply 're-found' himself during the European Renaissance ignores something quite fundamental. Jerry Brotton argues that important developments in trade and science, as well as ...

That's clear in Europe's Northern Renaissance. ♪♪ In Germany, the spirit of the age thrived in merchant towns like Rothenburg, which looks today much like it did in the 1500s. This wooden ...

The period between 1500 and 1800 enables ... of comparison between European and non-European states. The intellectual, religious and cultural developments of this period provide a constant context for ...

Stephen Perkinson, an associate professor of art history at Bowdoin College and the guest curator of “The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe,” describes the 15 carvings ...

“There was a presence in the Renaissance, so around 1500, of Africans in Europe and we felt it very important to show these two works, to also show that presence," he said. “I think that for a ...