Blooming flowers and vivid fruits, delicately surrounded by green, furling leaves, often framed devotional images. The long, fragile stems of…

In Renaissance polychrome sculptures, blue was ‘the noblest, most beautiful, and perfect of all colours.’ Cennino Cennini proclaimed this in…

Not generally considered to be a colour today, white was undoubtedly a colour in the Renaissance. White can be both…

Sumptuous silk, the blush on a beauty’s cheek, and the blood gushing from Christ’s wounds were painted on sculptures in…