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Pietà [2] (German: Vesperbild) a small painted wood sculpture dated to c. 1375–1400, now in the collection of the Cloisters, New York. Very little is known of it, except that is probably of southern German origin. [ 3 ]
Early Cretan School – post-Byzantine art or Cretan Renaissance 1400 – 1500; Mannerism and Late Renaissance – 1520 – 1600, ... Video art – early 1960 ...
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, lithograph by Henri-Joseph Hesse. This is a list of compositions by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, sorted by genre.The volume (given in parentheses for motets) refers to the volume of the Breitkopf & Härtel complete edition in which the work can be found.
1400: Bernardo Martorell – Spanish painter, working in a late gothic style (died 1452) 1400: Luca della Robbia – Italian sculptor from Florence, noted for his terracotta roundels (died 1482) 1400: Filarete – Florentine Renaissance architect, sculptor and architectural theorist (died 1469)
Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 [1]) is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music, science, and technology. [2]
The collection of complete Qurans and individual folios includes 98 from before 1000 AD, [20] 56 from 1000 to 1400, [21] 60 from 1400 to 1600, [22] and more than 150 from after 1600. [23] It was described by the historian Robert Irwin as "one of the largest and most representative collections of Quranic manuscripts in the world" [ 24 ] and is ...
The central round-topped area contains two doors, secured with a small gold pin, containing full-length gold figures in relief, chased in gold, a feature unique to this reliquary. [30] On the left door is the archangel Saint Michael , spearing a dragon representing the devil.
The Nunsense concept originated as a line of greeting cards featuring a nun offering tart quips with a clerical slant. The cards caught on so quickly that Goggin decided to expand the concept into a cabaret show called The Nunsense Story, which opened for a four-day run at Manhattan's Duplex and remained for 38 weeks, encouraging its creator to expand it into a full-length theater production.