It's Bethlehem in Flanders. ♪♪ In addition to their slice-of-life secular scenes, Northern artists of the Renaissance also gave the traditional medieval altarpiece a new level of sophistication.

It's Bethlehem in Flanders. ♪♪ In addition to their slice-of-life secular scenes, Northern artists of the Renaissance also gave the traditional medieval altarpiece a new level of sophistication.

The exhibition features several artists from the early Renaissance, including Giotto ... also serve as a link between the religious and secular world that reflects the change in artwork during ...

While the Renaissance is often associated with secularism, religion remained a significant theme in art and architecture. Many works were commissioned by the Church, and artists often depicted ...

Also worthy of note is the audiors` consistent effort to compare aspects of Byzantine secular art to diose of other subfields, in particular, European medieval and Renaissance art. The specialist may ...

Botticelli's painting Birth of Venus was an early secular female nude of the Renaissance ... More often, however, depictions of unclothed women in Renaissance art convey at least an air of ...

The Renaissance saw an explosion in production of secular art – that is, art that is not strictly about religion. This painting is a beautiful example of secular art from the Renaissance.

ROME—Among High Renaissance Italian painters ... span the length of Lotto's career and the range of his sacred and secular subject matter, reflections of the north are evident throughout ...

As other museums ride out the recession with clever repackagings of their permanent holdings, the Art Institute of ... God-fearing Middle Ages to the secular Renaissance. Old habits died hard ...