The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe History from their source to the

from their source to the sea

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

rehearses five children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story

They mapped extraterrestrial terrain

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The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe History from their source to theBy 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