WQED

Renaissances

Rebelling against any notion that women shouldn't speak until spoken to, Artemisia refuses to shut her portrait up.

Mimar Sinar always felt destined for something greater than building bridges.

In Rome, Caravaggio breaks the social and aesthetic rules of his generation.

The Renaissance creates a contrast between ars and invenio.

Explore one of humanity’s deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature.

Explore light and color in art in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy.

Examine the rise and fall of “progress” as an ideology.