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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 ...

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.

Actions have consequences. A lack of consequences is an action that also has consequences. America is in the throes of an epidemic of civic illiteracy that can be traced to a half-century of ...

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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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 ...