From the end of the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance, Christianity witnessed a growth in popular religious devotion to the humanity of Christ as well as a growing desire for a more intimate religious experience.  Devotional texts such as the Meditations on the Life of Christ were written in response to those desires.  The exhibition examines the pictorial tradition reflective of these developments and which created wonderfully imaginative explorations of Christ’s life, passion, death, and resurrection.  Interpreting the term Renaissance broadly, the exhibition features print impressions on paper, panel painting, and manuscript illumination made throughout Europe between 1250 and 1550 A.D.  Included will be one of the great masterpieces of sixteenth-century Flemish illumination – a small altarpiece known as the Stein Quadriptych displaying sixty-four scenes from the life of Christ by illuminator Simon Bening.