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"The first major exhibition in forty-five years devoted to the Burgundian Netherlandish artist Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532) brings together Gossart's paintings, drawings, and prints and places them in the context of the art and artists that influenced his transformation from Late Gothic Mannerism to the new Renaissance mode. Gossart was among the first northern artists to travel to Rome to make copies after antique sculpture and introduce historical and mythological subjects with erotic nude figures into the mainstream of northern painting. Most often credited with successfully assimilating Italian Renaissance style into northern European art of the early sixteenth century, he is the pivotal Old Master who changed the course of Flemish art from the Medieval craft tradition of its founder, Jan van Eyck (ca. 1380/90-1441), and charted new territory that eventually led to the great age of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). "

"Bürgermeister Johann Heinrich Waser war eine prägende Gestalt der Zürcher und eidgenössischen Politik in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Kaum bekannt ist dagegen Wasers umfangreiche publizistische Tätigkeit. Sie gibt reichen Aufschluss über die Laufbahn dieses Zürcher Staatsmannes und bietet zugleich faszinierende Einblicke in die Alltagsgeschichte der Zürcher Elite jener Zeit."

"Die Bayerische Staatsbibliothek nimmt das Jubiläum ihres 450-jährigen Bestehens zum Anlass für eine archäologische Grabung in eigener Sache: Eine Ausstellung zeigt grossartige Handschriften und Drucke aus dem reichen Gründungsbestand am Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts."

"Created in Utrecht, The Netherlands, around 1440, the manuscript was taken apart sometime before 1856. Its leaves were shuffled and then rebound into two volumes to make each look more or less complete."

Au lendemain de la paix de Nimègue qui met fin à la guerre de Hollande, Louis XIV vient de faire de la France la plus florissante monarchie du monde. Il est aussi le protecteur des sciences et des arts et les deux globes que Coronelli lui dédie magnifient l'image d'un monde pacifié qui lui offre, grâce au commerce et à la navigation, toutes les ressources des contrées les plus lointaines.\nLes Globes de Louis XIV devaient présenter les connaissances scientifiques de l'époque, mais aussi célébrer la gloire du Roi, témoigner de sa mission "terrestre" comme de son origine "céleste".

"Slides / Photo Cds Illustrating Maps from the Renaissance Period 1500-1700."

"Hans Holbein the Younger. German painter (b. 1497, Augsburg, d. 1543, London)"

"The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy. March 2, 2010-May 23, 2010. Medieval Sculpture Hall. The renovation of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon provides an opportunity for the unprecedented loan of the alabaster mourner figures from the tomb of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria. Each of the statuettes is approximately sixteen inches high. They were carved by Jean de La Huerta and Antoine Le Moiturier between 1443-1456 for the ducal tomb originally in the church of Champmol, and they follow the precedent of the mourner figures carved by Claus Sluter and colleagues for the tomb of Duke Philip the Bold (1342-1404). The tombs are celebrated as among the most sumptuous and innovative of the late Middle Ages. The primary innovation was the space given to the figures of the grieving mourners on the base of the tomb, who seem to pass through the real arcades of a cloister."