5 days ago by tuscanyumbriavilla

Del Carmine, Florence, Tuscany After visiting Masaccio’s Frescoes In The Brancacci Chapel on our Visit To Florence, Tuscany last week, we wandered over the piazza and had lunch in the del Carmine trattoria. Despite being late October, it was still warm enough to eat outside so we sat at a table on t ...

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7 days ago by tuscanyumbriavilla

Masaccio, Cappella Brancacci, Santa Maria del Carmine On our Visit To Florence, Tuscany last week we visited frescoes by Masaccio in the Brancacci Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Carmine. Masaccio (Big Tom) has left two great works of art in Florence, the Holy Trinity in the church of Santa ...

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8 days ago by tuscanyumbriavilla

Florence, Tuscany We have friends staying and yesterday we took them to Florence, the capital of Tuscany and centre of the Renaissance. There are so many things to see in Florence that unless you spend a few days there, it’s best to choose one or two museums or churches and combine it with a walk ar ...

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15 days ago by Richard Lacayo

This weekend CBS News Sunday Morning, with Charles Osgood, will have a special edition focusing on the problem of obesity in America. That's not the kind of news that ordinarily makes it into an art blog, but part of the show will be a segment on how the human body has been represented [...]

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18 days ago by Lisa Laughy

Lisa Laughy – Library Web Services Three new research guides are now available through the Ohrstrom blog – just in time to help with current research projects. Ms. Sanborn has put together research guides for Middle Eastern Voices, the Humanities V Renaissance Artists research project, and the Latin ...

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24 days ago by Ron Hogan

Imagine walking into a gallery in New York City and buying a painting. An obscure work, thought to be 19th Century German. It’s a well-made portrait, but nothing special. Then, after careful analysis and the lucky uncovering of a fingerprint, the truth is uncovered: for $19,000 you could have bought ...

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28 days ago by Jen

Click Here for More Pictures on eBay! Femmejolie313 store ANTIQUE BRASS FIGURAL “PUTTI”-”CHERUB” LAMP-1700’s Up for your bidding consideration-An antique brass lamp, with Cherubs or Putti (Putti – images of winged babies or cherubs – in Renaissance art.) There 6 in all, 3 [...] Related posts: 8 Anti ...

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36 days ago by tuscanyumbriavilla

The Flagellation of Christ by Piero della Francesca, Ducal Palace, Urbino, Italy Piero della Francesca was one of the great Renaissance painters, in fact, his painting, The Flagellation of Christ, was described by the art historian Kenneth Clark as “the greatest small painting in the world’. You can ...

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37 days ago by admin

The prevalent modern notion that a “renaissance period” followed Western Europe’s medieval age was first expressed by numerous Italian writers who lived between 1350c and 1550c.

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44 days ago by Russell McNeil

Meditation VIII.21a - The Stoic Science of Anatomy - Translated by George Long and rewritten by Russell McNeil Turn it (the body) inside out, and see what kind of thing it is; and when it has grown old, what kind of thing it becomes, and when it is diseased. 1 Explanation (1) Before the European Ren ...

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