The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe History at the Bowdoin College Museum

at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from June 28 through October 19

this book traces the artist’s experiments with different media and highlights innovative techniques that established his reputation as early modernist

from their source to the sea

Adjustable navy blue bow tie with white polar bear print

The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe History at the Bowdoin College MuseumBy Stephen Perkinson With contributions from Naomi Speakman, Katherine Baker, Elizabeth Morrison, and Emma Solberg. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from June 24 through November 26, 2017. We often imagine the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human progress and artistic achievement. But, intriguingly, macabre images proliferated in precisely this period: unsettling depictions