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

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

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

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