Curator Tim Husband shares how Peter Flötner used playing cards as a visual polemic to convey his worldview.

"One doesn’t tend to think of silver plates as being quite as emotionally involving."

When academic ideals faced challenges in the later nineteenth century, the delicate status of the nude was quickly exposed and subverted.

The later Valois kings, who unified France and strengthened its power after the Hundred Years’ War, frequently engaged in diplomacy and warfare in Italy; exposure to Italian art gradually formed their taste.

Cal, a Scholastic Gold Key Award recipient, bids goodbye to New York City through paintings in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art.

With Giotto, the flat world of thirteenth-century Italian painting was transformed into an analogue for the real world, for which reason he is considered the father of modern European painting.