Early modern printmakers trained observers to scan the heavens above as well as faces in their midst. Peter Apian printed the Cosmographicus Liber (1524) to teach lay astronomers their place in the ...

Stained Glass Panel with Aconite Leaves, ca. 1275-1300, Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, gift of Ella Brummer in memory of her husband, Ernest Brummer, 1977.89. Public domain. Studies in ...

1633–36) and outlines the historical and systematic framework for a theatrum mundi of celebration. This concept entails using art to justify human existence in the face of changing conceptions of the ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The concepts of purity and contamination preoccupied early modern Europeans fundamentally, structuring virtually every aspect of their ...

This, at least, is something one could draw from the Guggenheim Museum's sprawling Orphism survey, a wonderfully nerdy ...

There are also essays on 11 other female patrons, curators and department directors who had a far-reaching impact on MoMA during its early decades and helped lay the groundwork for all Modern art ...