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 ...

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 ...