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 ...

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 ...

To avoid razing the ruins of previously destroyed buildings, the leaders wanted to use their ancient foundations as a symbol ... and sculptors of the Italian Renaissance. After the work was ...