For anyone unfamiliar with Renaissance symbols and tropes, this book adds depth and nuance to the sensual power of its greatest works. This immersive account from historian Harris (Sex Workers ...

Stephen Perkinson, an associate professor of art history at Bowdoin College and the guest curator of “The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe,” describes the 15 carvings ...

As a new exhibition looks at the concept of the loop, Joobin Bekhrad discovers how one symbol had different meanings in ancient Egypt, Hindu mythology and Renaissance alchemy. It is perhaps ...

Today, we think of Renaissance portraiture as paintings on ... Portraits and their covers — the latter which often depicted scenes or symbols meant to offer insights into the sitters ...

But do you have any idea what this odd-looking Renaissance musical notation is? If you’re a connoisseur of modern music theory, you’ll know that a ‘x’ symbol before a note denotes a double sharp. So, ...