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Art Bites 157: Van der Weyden
Northern artists gave the traditional medieval altarpiece a new level of sophistication. Van der Weyden’s exquisitely detailed Last Judgment
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Art Bites 158: Hieronymus Bosch and "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
Bosch’s three-paneled masterpiece takes you on a wild ride from a tranquil Garden of Eden creation scene to a
Rick Steves' Europe
Art Bites 159: The Renaissance Defined
The Renaissance, a reawakening to the enlightened ways of ancient Greece and Rome, was, for two centuries, an explosion of
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Art Bites 148: Building a Gothic Cathedral Out of 13 Tourists
Gothic churches were taller and brighter than the earlier Romanesque. They had a skeleton of support — columns, buttresses, and pointed
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Art Bites 149: Raphael
Raphael combined the grace of Leonardo, the power of Michelangelo, and the humanist spirit of the age. The master of