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Simonetta Vespucci: The Face That Launched A Thousand Prints
Described by Botticelli as "the unparalleled one," the face of Italian Renaissance beauty Simonetta Vespucci is known to people all over the world as the face of Venus, and she's almost as famous as Leonardo da Vinci's
Mona Lisa
.
Renaissance Inventions: Classical Humanism, Embraced Then Rejected
Renaissance humanism based on the pagan concepts of classical antiquity seemed like a good thing to mix in with church theology, but humanist scholars and the papacy couldn't quite make it work.
For That Knee Alone
There was an unspoken compeitition between Italian Renaissance giants Michelangelo and Raphael, and this is a story about how each artist paid homage to the other in a subtle way.
The Outrageous Life of Benvenuto Cellini in His Own Words
Few men have lived life as full as late Italian Renaissance mannerist artist, Benvenuto Cellini. Born in 1500, Cellini would be thrilled that we still talk about his life five hundred years after his birth. And no one tells a story better than Cellini.
Offer Thanks to Nero
Why, one might ask, would modern civilization owe a debt of gratitude to the unpopular, infamous Roman emperor
Nero
, dead two thousand years now by his own hand? For those folks not tuned in to their own historical roots, Nero is an important part of your culture, not just a computer software tool for burning compact disks.
Women As Edible Art
Education is fun, but students do not always learn the lesson that's being taught. Speaking in metaphors sometimes delivers quite a different learning experience.
Botticelli: From the Birth of Venus to a Bonfire of the Vanities
Sandro Botticelli, the beloved Italian Renaissance artist we know so well today, died tragically several years after throwing many of his own works onto a bonfire at the urging of a fanatical religious reformer. If not for his resurrection by an ususual group of Victorian painters in the 19th century, we might not know him at all.
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