Why did art take on a political role in the Renaissance? How did history change medieval art to Renaissance art? Why did Renaissance art start in Italy? Why was primitive art and mythology important to abstract expressionism? Why is Tintoretto important to art history? Why is the Sistine Chape...
“Why have there been no great women artists?” The question tolls reproachfully in the background of most discussions of the so-called woman problem. But like so many other so-called questions involved in the feminist “controversy,” it falsifies the nature of the issue at the same time t...
but the logic chain of these collections is, from our perspective, backwards: (1) Fear of Hell drives men to good behavior. (2) These men were bad. (3) These men did not fear Hell. (4) These men were atheists. In the Renaissance, sinful ...