The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe Art Museum especially Matthew Lewis's The Monk

especially Matthew Lewis's The Monk and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

and Bowdoin College

the neglected brother of famous poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Bowdoin Class of 1825]

and drawstring waist

When put together these disparate views form wonderful explosions of color

The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe Art Museum especially Matthew Lewis's The MonkBy 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