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Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table
Renaissance paintings ... a decade scouring the masterpieces of 15th- and 16th-century art for answers to one of the great questions of Italian agriculture: Whatever happened to the boisterous ...
Artnet News13d
Did the Vatican Once House Erotic Frescos?
The Vatican may have been home to a series of 16 erotic frescos that were quickly turned into a booklet with accompanying ...
The Harvard Crimson1mon
So You Want to Dress Like a 14th-Century Medieval Lady
Spanning from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance in the 14th century, the Middle Ages encompassed a thousand years of social, cultural, and religious upheaval, and — most importantly ...
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A crumbling, long-forgotten statue with an unusual erect phallus might be a Michelangelo. Renaissance scholars want hard evidence.
By the second half of the 20th century, the hedges were gone and ... Victor Coonin, a professor of Italian Renaissance art at Rhodes College, offered one: It doesn't have that Michelangelo je ...