Smithsonian Magazine

See the Breathtaking 14th-Century Sienese Artworks That Helped Set the Italian Renaissance in Motion

A new exhibition at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is brimming with opulent religious panel paintings, altarpieces, sculptures, textiles and metalworks from the Italian city of Siena.
Times Argus

Paolo Veneziano foretells the Renaissance: Venice’s apex of Italo-Byzantine art

Paolo Veneziano lived in 14th-century Venice, a time when the Bubonic Plague, the so-called “Black Death,” decimated one-third of the European population. During this dire period, the already devout ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Paolo Veneziano: Art & Devotion in 14th-Century Venice’ Review: Worshiping at the Altar of Beauty

Fourteenth-century Venice, with a population of 100,000, was not only one of Europe’s largest cities, but also a wealthy maritime trading hub and a cultural center where the aesthetics of mainland ...
The Harvard Crimson

So You Want to Dress Like a 14th-Century Medieval Lady

Welcume, loveli folke! Heere is thyn wey to dresse as a ladye reverant and faire. The medieval period was not a monolith, and neither were the people who lived during it. Spanning from the fall of ...