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Showing posts with label Renaissnce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Renaissnce. Show all posts
Thursday, February 02, 2012

Objects of Devotion: The Material Culture of Italian Renaissance Piety, 1400–1600

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An earthquake ravages a small town in central Italy. Catastrophic fissures rip through the buildings; desperate cries can be heard from thos...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Leonardo da Vinci: Bag Designer

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) was an artist, inventor, scientist, architect, engineer, writer and even a musician. Now we know that he was...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Money and Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities – new exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi

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Masterpieces by Botticelli, Beato Angelico, Piero del Pollaiolo, the Della Robbia family, Lorenzo di Credi and Memling – the cream of Renais...
Friday, July 29, 2011

500 years later, Michelangelo’s ‘greatest work of art’ may be completed

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From the espresso-serving waiters to the floor of the Uffizi, Florence residents are hotly debating a suggestion by the mayor that the city ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Milan museum to test whether sketch is lost Leonardo da Vinci work

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Peter Hohenstatt was skeptical at first, especially when he learned the drawing dated to about 1500. The sketch was "absolutely Leona...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Archives of Renaissance Artist Vasari almost sent to Russia

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An odd story of the possible sale of the archives of a Renaissance artist to a mysterious Russian oligarch seems to be coming to an end wit...