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In the December 2008 podcast, priceless paintings fly into town for ‘Renaissance Faces’. Plus sixties folk star Shirley Collins, and a wandering Van Dyck masterpiece.

A first look at the ‘Making Colour’ exhibition, how Renaissance buildings can tell a story, and new Associate Artist George Shaw on naughty nymphs.

The introduction to the second essay for the exhibition ‘Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting’ explains the use of architecture in drawing the viewer into the painting.

Held in association with an exhibition of the same name, this international conference examined how Quinten Massys and his contemporaries pioneered secular, humorous painting in the early sixteenth century, highlighting artistic exchanges between Italy and the Netherlands and their impact on representations of women.

In the November 2007 podcast, light the fuse and stand well back for talks about Saint Catherine. Also, explore a different Renaissance in Siena while hearing about how our new exhibition was put together.

In this essay read about how paintings were designed in the Renaissance and the role of architecture played when creating a composition.

Explore the multiple meanings and associations behind the use of arches and loggias in Renaissance painting.

Read about how artists represented specific places in the Renaissance and thus helped to forge their identities through their paintings.

Take a tour of Renaissance masterpieces from Northern Italy, Netherlands, and Germany, including works by Titian, Veronese, and Holbein.

Celebrate women in the collection with events, features and films