Medieval & Renaissance History Archive
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![In Elisabeth de Bièvre’s book Dutch Art and Urban Culture, 1200-1700, the author explains how distinct geographical circumstances and histories shaped unique urban developments in different locations in the Netherlands and, in turn, […]](https://i1.wp.com/artbooks.yupnet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/11/9780300205626_crop.jpg?resize=184%2C128 "Lowlands Travelogue: Leiden")
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Lowlands Travelogue: Leiden
Posted on July 5, 2016In Elisabeth de Bièvre’s book Dutch Art and Urban Culture, 1200-1700, the author explains how distinct geographical circumstances and histories shaped unique urban developments in different locations in the Netherlands and, in turn, […] -
![The Metropolitan Museum of Art generously shared following post with the Yale ARTbooks blog. See the post on their blog. Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art, Helen C. Evans […]](https://i1.wp.com/artbooks.yupnet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2014/03/9780300179507.jpg?resize=184%2C128 "From the Met: Featured Catalogue—Interview with Curator, Author, and World Book Award Recipient, Helen C. Evans.")
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From the Met: Featured Catalogue—Interview with Curator, Author, and World Book Award Recipient, Helen C. Evans.
Posted on March 17, 2014The Metropolitan Museum of Art generously shared following post with the Yale ARTbooks blog. See the post on their blog. Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art, Helen C. Evans […] -
![The Metropolitan Museum of Art generously shared following post with the Yale ARTbooks blog. See the post on their blog. Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters, a new catalogue by Keith […]](https://i1.wp.com/artbooks.yupnet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2014/03/Piero-Cover-crop.jpg?resize=184%2C128 "From the Met: Featured Catalogue—Interview with the Curator: Keith Christiansen")
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From the Met: Featured Catalogue—Interview with the Curator: Keith Christiansen
Posted on March 10, 2014The Metropolitan Museum of Art generously shared following post with the Yale ARTbooks blog. See the post on their blog. Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters, a new catalogue by Keith […] -
![Daphne Barbour and Melanie Gifford– Those of us who spend our time closely studying works of art know that shiver of recognition: the moment we realize that we’re looking […]](https://i0.wp.com/artbooks.yupnet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2014/01/9780300197426_crop.jpg?resize=184%2C128 "On Creating <em>Facture</em>, the National Gallery of Art’s New Conservation Journal: Privileged Intimacy with Great Works")
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On Creating Facture, the National Gallery of Art’s New Conservation Journal: Privileged Intimacy with Great Works
Posted on January 9, 2014Daphne Barbour and Melanie Gifford– Those of us who spend our time closely studying works of art know that shiver of recognition: the moment we realize that we’re looking […] -
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Building the Cloisters
Posted on December 21, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks At first glance The Cloisters might be seen as an anachronism to its northern Manhattan neighborhood. Nestled within Fort Tryon Park (opened 1935), sitting above a grid of […] -
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The Venetian Book Tour
Posted on July 3, 2012Are you spending your holiday in the romantic city of Venice this summer? We’re not, either. We have happily entertained fantasies about such a getaway, though, thanks to two recent […] -
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Curator Helen Evans Tours the Objects of Byzantium and Islam
Posted on April 24, 2012Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (7th – 9th Century), the revelatory exhibition now on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (accompanied by a rich catalogue of the same […] -
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Eminent Biography: Michael Hirst on Michelangelo
Posted on March 6, 2012Born March 6, 1475 not far outside of Florence, Italy, Michelangelo di Ludovico Buonarroti Simoni seemed already to have the credentials to become the quintessential Renaissance Man. His hometown—Caprese—has since […] -
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Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan
Posted on December 8, 2011The National Gallery’s “Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan” opened this fall, and is the most complete display of Leonardo’s rare surviving paintings ever held. Today we look […]