The Mouseion · Europe 1300–1800 · The Renaissance

The Renaissance

From gold-ground altarpieces to oil paint and perspective: two centuries in which painters in Florence, Venice, Bruges and Nuremberg learned to make a flat panel look like a window onto the world.

Walk inThe whole museum

On the walls this month

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  Saint George and the Dragon — Bernat Martorell (died 1452), 1434–35, Tempera on panel
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Portrait of a Young Man — Dosso Dossi (1490–1541), c. 1530, oil and gold on wood
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Hunting near Hartenfels Castle — Lucas Cranach (1472–1553), 1540, oil, originally on wood, transferred to masonite
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Eve — Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553), 1533–37, Oil on panel
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Virgin and Child — Workshop of Rogier van der Weyden (1399–1464), c. 1460, Oil on panel
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The Adventures of Ulysses — Apollonio di Giovanni (1415–1465), 1435–45, Tempera on panel
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Judith — Jan Sanders van Hemessen (1519–1556), c. 1540, Oil on panel
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist — Giovanni di Paolo (1398–1482), 1455–60, Tempera on panel
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Diptych of the Virgin and Child Enthroned and the Crucifixion — Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1280, Tempera on panel
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist — Bartolomeo di Giovanni (1465–1501), 1490/95, Tempera on panel (poplar)
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Madonna and Child in a Niche — Antonio del Ceraiolo, c. 1520s, oil on wood
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Portrait of a Man, Possibly Girolamo Rosati — Lorenzo Lotto (1480–1556), 1533–34, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  The Adoration of the Christ Child — Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen (1465–1533), c. 1515, Oil on panel
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Alessandro de' Medici — Pontormo, (Jacopo Carrucci) (1494–1557), 1534–35, Oil on panel
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The Holy Family with Mary Magdalen — El Greco (1541–1614), c. 1590–95, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Portrait of a Young Artist — German, c. 1500, Oil on panel
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago

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• Enlightenment & Revolution — Rococo pleasure gardens, then the cool lines of Neoclassicism, then revolution. The eighteenth century painted…

Where the works come from

Every work in the Mouseion is a real piece, out of copyright everywhere, shown from the open collections of the museums that hold it — each label names the original’s museum and links to its page there.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access
• The Art Institute of Chicago — public-domain collection
• The Cleveland Museum of Art — Open Access
• Wikimedia Commons — public-domain photographs of works held elsewhere