Book of Donmon Teith

In Florence, in the summer of 1501, a man named Antonio Rinaldeschi was arrested and hanged after throwing horse dung at an outdoor painting of the Virgin Mary.

Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: from paintings to prints to small sculptures, the art of the late Middle Ages and early modern period

Miraculous images are the focus for an exploration of art and devotion in Renaissance Italy.

Interested in the ways in which medieval and early modern communities have acted as participants, observers, and interpreters of events and how they ascribed me

Political life in Renaissance Italy was held together by political principles which underlay, or were used to justify, political proposals and decisions in prac