Madonna di Foligno

II. Flemish Tapestries 1500–1750

~~With the seventeenth century we enter a new era in which the market could make or break an artist. It was always true that a painter who chose to run a shop needed to be a good businessman, but now a new clientele and new economic conditions controlled the artist more than ever before. We will discuss making,...

~~The succession of altarpieces painted by Titian in the decade after Bellini’s death, from...

The sacred image is a genre that serves two masters, art and the Church. Although the requirements of art are constantly changing, those of the Church remain relatively constant: to create images that will instruct the worshiper and move his or her emotions. Twice during the Renaissance the ecclesiastical establishment judged that the images artists were producing were unsatisfactory: locally and...