
Renaissance Drawings – Spectacular Mysteries: The Getty, LA
The Getty, Los Angeles with a display of Italian master drawings Dec 11, 2018 – April 28, 2019, will tell stories of their creation and the purposes they served
The Getty, Los Angeles with a display of Italian master drawings Dec 11, 2018 – April 28, 2019, will tell stories of their creation and the purposes they served
All that Glitters: Life at the Renaissance Court at the Getty, focuses on the evolution of European court culture – Middle Ages to the rebirth of modern Europe
What do you know about design history and the decorative arts and the evolution of taste from antiquity to the present day
Medici: Masters of Florence a Netflix television series employs art, design, music, fashion, style plus layers of conspiracy, to ensure it wins a large audience
A kind heart, a good soul, essential ingredients in a menu of goals we need to establish and reach for if we seek to find a balance between romance and reality
An advocate of humanism and a mutil-talented Renaissance man Genoese born architect Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most brilliant celebrities of his day
When in 1563 Humanist Poet Annibal Caro retired into private life, to alternate between Rome and the countryside, he said ‘I seem to have found the alchemy of staying well’
During the rebirth of humanism in Italy from the 4th to the 14th centuries patrons began recognizing that artisans were also creative thinkers and inventors
The word classic means of the first class, of acknowledged excellence; the word classical pertains to the standard achieved by ancient Greek and Latin authors or their works, or the culture, art, architecture of Greek and Roman antiquity generally. The main characteristics are clarity of outline or formal design; restrained,…