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By day, he rebuilt postwar Korea through scientific research, and by night, he translated Giorgio Vasari’s *Renaissance ...

It looks like harmless fun - until you see what really goes on behind the costumes and cobblestone facades. Man empties piggy ...

The inscription reading " Clemes Stam " connects this burial artifact to one of Europe's most prestigious swordmaking centers during the Renaissance period. The sword emerged from the ruins of the ...

Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s ...

Actions have consequences A lack of consequences is an action that also has consequences. America is in the throes of an ...

Deeper meanings are to be found within the images themselves and the way they are painted.” His subject is the six scenes in the fresco Good and Bad Government by Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290-1348), at ...

Presented by Professor Suzannah Lipscomb. The researcher is Max Wintle, audio editor is Amy Haddow and the producer is Rob Weinberg. The senior producer is Anne-Marie Luff. All music courtesy of ...

Rebecca Jelbert’s new book claims Michelangelo may have forged the Vatican’s Laocoön Group, linking it to the Sistine Chapel.

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It was on November 1, 1512,  that public entry was first allowed in the Sistine Chapel. Built between 1473 and 1481, the chapel walls feature scenes from the lives of Moses and Jesus Christ, painted ...

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