Christopher Marlowe’s stage fright
Stephen Greenblatt’s attempt to reconstruct the playwright’s story is brilliant – but Marlowe the man remains a mystery
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Siena’s artistic revolution
In the 14th century, Duccio and others developed ways of painting that had never been seen before.
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The Renaissance in drawing
Two exhibitions reveal how, for the great Renaissance artists, drawing was both a tool for making paintings and a form…
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The inventor of the Renaissance
Four and a half centuries after his death, we still owe our understanding of art’s greatest period to Giorgio Vasari.
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What Machiavelli knew about pandemics
During his turbulent career, the philosopher and diplomat was fascinated by plagues and their lethal effects – and his ideas…
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Breaking the Renaissance myth
Culture and the universal genius were not the only things to thrive in this supposed golden age – so too…
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The Decameron – the 14th-century Italian book that shows us how to survive coronavirus
Giovanni Boccaccio’s work taught citizens how to maintain mental wellbeing in times of epidemics and isolation.
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Bartolomé Bermejo: the pioneering painter of the Spanish Renaissance
Why the little-known artist of the Spanish Renaissance deserves wider recognition.
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