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Piero della Francesca’s Augustinian Altarpiece
In 1454, Angelo di Giovanni di Simone d'Angelo commissioned a polyptych from Piero della Francesca for the High Altar of St Agostino in...

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With the death of Charles the Bold in 1477, many of the early Netherlandish painters lost the main source of their patronage. Further, their...
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While writing about my tour of Appleton Rum Estate (St. Elizabeth, Jamaica), I noticed a karst geologic area called Cockpit Country to the n...
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder was unequalled as a painter during the latter portions of the Northern Renaissance. ... the 16th-century Flemish ...