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Michelangelo’s “David” Deemed Too Explicit for Subway Ad

Avatar photo by Maya Pontone May 19, 2023May 22, 2023

Just weeks after the Florida school debacle, an Italian restaurant in Scotland had to edit out the marble statue’s crotch.

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Is a Michelangelo Self-Portrait Hidden In His Famous Fresco?

Avatar photo by Maya Pontone April 23, 2023May 3, 2023

In a new theory, scholar Adriano Marinazzo posits that Michelangelo painted himself as God in his famous Sistine Chapel fresco “The Creation of Adam.”

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Why Are Giorgione’s Paintings So Mysterious, Even Centuries Later?

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford March 1, 2021March 1, 2021

We know precious little about the painter’s life, and we know even less about his work’s meaning. A new book argues that the artist wanted it that way.

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Raphael’s Tapestries Unite at Sistine Chapel for the First Time Since the Renaissance

by Monica Castillo February 19, 2020February 18, 2020

The tapestries — made out of silk, wool, and gold and silver thread — have been restored over the past decade by conservationists at the Vatican Museum.

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Living in a Renaissance Palace, an Art Historian Uncovers an Amazing Past

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn August 16, 2019June 18, 2020

When an unexpected opportunity arose to spend her year living in the famed Palazzo Rucellai, Allison Levy seized on it.

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Gucci Runway Show Borrowed Beasts and Beheadings from Renaissance Art

by Kristen Bateman February 23, 2018February 26, 2018

Alessandro Michele, Gucci’s creative director, is obsessed with Renaissance art.

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Measuring the Worth of Renaissance Art in Cows

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 20, 2017November 27, 2017

Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art uses the cost of a cow to consider the worth of 16th-century objects.

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Luxurious, Terrifying Visions of Death in Renaissance Memento Mori

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 16, 2017

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is exhibiting memento mori objects from Renaissance Europe, often grotesquely designed to startle viewers into recognizing mortality.

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Sin Like It’s the 16th Century in a Game that Remixes Renaissance Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 15, 2016August 3, 2021

Forgive me, for I have sinned. I peeped at a lady’s ankle through an open window and carved an idol in my own image.

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Discovering the Secrets of Venetian Glass

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 30, 2016April 1, 2016

The finest glassware of the Renaissance was made by artisans on the Murano island in Venice, and their techniques were intensely guarded.

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The Evolution of the Watermelon, Captured in Still Lifes

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 30, 2015July 5, 2018

The watermelons of our summers are not the watermelons of yesteryear, as demonstrated by a 17th-century painting by Italian artist Giovanni Stanchi.

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The Meaning of the Ring, from Memento Mori to Marriage

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 22, 2015July 23, 2015

Rings are one of the most personal and oldest human adornments, evolving in complexity with metalwork techniques and the gemstone trade.

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Our Place: to the moon and back on a rocketship from Rome
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Our Place: to the moon and back on a rocketship from Rome

Tom Osgood’s final sculptures accompany design objects by his daughter Ravenna that celebrate domestic joys. On view at form & concept in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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