When Louis I, Duke of Anjou in late-14th-century France, commissioned a tapestry illustrating the Book of Revelation, the artist and weavers he hired must have quaked in their boots.

In her presentation, Mary Edwards will discuss the impact of Greco-Roman art on the Italian artist, Altichiero, who painted frescoes in the late 14th century in Padua. Though Altichiero was painting ...