Ken Burns and His ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ Co-Directors on Why They Broke Their Rules for PBS’ Portrait of the Renaissance Icon
Leonardo da Vinci' directors Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon on their PBS documentary about the Italian Renaissance ...
Rare renaissance painting to stay in UK
A museum has raised almost £4.5m to save a rare Italian renaissance painting. The Ashmolean Museum, which is part of the University of Oxford, paid £4.48m for the 1420s crucifixion painting by artist ...
Ex Neal's Yard Dairy affineur – French cheesemongers are 'feeling pressures of modernity'
Having championed the British cheesemaking renaissance, Ned Palmer's next stop was France. But, as he explains, the nation ...
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Museum Raises $6 Million to Keep Rare Renaissance Painting in the U.K.
A rare early masterpiece by the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico has been acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England ...
How to navigate London’s vast, wondrous Victoria and Albert Museum
Paintings, ceramics, photography, fashion, furniture and more: The V&A Museum is a treasure trove of art and design. Here’s ...
University of Bristol13d
Fathoming the Deep in English Renaissance Tragedy
This book demonstrates how a group of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries stage the fear and exhilaration generated by encounters with the unknown and the extraordinary. Arguing that the ...
Greek City Times7d
Ancient Greek Renaissance Rewrite: “Dark Age” Shorter, Cultural Rise Earlier Than Thought
A groundbreaking discovery is rewriting the history of ancient Greece. New research suggests the cultural rise after the ...
El País in English1d
Grandiose luxury and 1,400 dead workers: The palace that wanted to be bigger than the Vatican
The history of Mafra Palace, the main setting for ‘Queen Margot,’ competes for sheer epic (and, at times, terror) with the ...
Naya Beat, Vol. 2: South Asian Dance and Electronic Music 1988-1994
In the ’80s and ’90s, South Asian musicians around the globe blended house and dub with the sounds of their heritage, ...
University of Arkansas8d
Italian Program to Offer Course on Representation of Women From Middle Ages to Modern Period
Representations of and by Italian Women From the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period, will be offered Wednesdays, 4:35-6:55 p.m., this coming spring.
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Album Reviews
As The Libertines' second album turns 13, revisit our original review In the summer of 2004, as the greatest British renaissance of music for over... The world’s defining voice in music and pop ...