Art historians have created a new app which allows users to roam around one of Florence’s oldest and most important churches, San Pier Maggiore, 240 years after it was demolished.
New exhibition puts the ̽»¨Ö±²¥'s collections of two leading figures in Modern British Art into context for the first time.Â
As Kettle's Yard opens its doors following a two-year, multi-million pound redevelopment and transformation of its gallery spaces, the work of 38 leading contemporary and historic internationally-renowned artists has gone on display in a spectacular opening show.
Rustic figurines of a resigned-looking Virgin clutching her child may have no obvious literary or artistic merit to us today. But understanding what they meant to the spiritual lives of their owners can offer a glimpse of the human hopes and fears that people have, for centuries, invested in inanimate objects.
Imagination is where ideas start: in the mind’s eye. ̽»¨Ö±²¥ability to think creatively – to dream the impossible – is behind the technological developments that have transformed the world. Science, suggests the second of four Cambridge Shorts, is an art.
An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery features paintings of some of Russia’s legendary creative figures. Russia and the Arts, which draws attention to a generation of overlooked artists, is curated by Dr Rosalind P Blakesley. This month also sees the launch of Blakesley’s new book, ̽»¨Ö±²¥Russian Canvas, a work set to expand our understanding of a century of painting through periods of remarkable social and political change.
A team of experts has pieced together the architectural context of two treasures of Renaissance art in the National Gallery collection. ̽»¨Ö±²¥research behind the 3D-visualisation combines traditional and digital methods – and benefits from invaluable input from the local community.
An exhibition of early colour printing in Germany shines a light on the ways in which technology jump-started a revolution in image making. ̽»¨Ö±²¥British Museum show is curated by Dr Elizabeth Savage, whose research makes a radical contribution to an understanding of colour in woodcuts.
°Õ³ó±ðÌýCambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, G is for Greyhound – as heraldic symbols of the Tudors' right to rule, and as part of important research into treatments for osteosarcoma in dogs and humans.
Scientific imaging techniques are uncovering secrets locked in medieval illuminated manuscripts – including those of a thrifty duke.
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