Acclaimed Italian filmmaker and activist Fred Kudjo Kuwornu will bring his thought-provoking film, “We Were Here: The Untold Story of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe,” to the Wexner Center for ...

From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...

Reframing the Renaissance / Claire Farago -- The pathos of distance : Byzantium in the gaze of Renaissance Europe and modern scholarship / Anthony Cutler -- Italian sculptors and sculpture outside of ...

In 1588 there was a scandal at the Venetian embassy in Istanbul. Gregorio, a young medic, had been spending time with the language student Gianesino (a few years his senior, likely in his early 20s), ...

AFA copy 39088013337209 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, S. Dillon Ripley Endowment, From his friends, 1993. The stereotyping of black Africans in Renaissance Europe / K. J. P. Lowe - ...