Tag: Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to...
Anna Swartwood House, University of South Carolina
When a 5-inch-by-4-inch red chalk drawing of a woman’s foot by Michelangelo...
Pi gets all the fanfare, but other numbers also deserve their...
Manil Suri, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
March 14 is celebrated as Pi Day because the date, when written...
Long before Armstrong and Aldrin, artists were stoking dreams of space...
Anne Collins Goodyear, Bowdoin College
In the midst of the space race, Hereward Lester Cooke, the former co-director of the NASA Art Program, observed, “Space...
Leonardo da Vinci saw in animals the ‘image of the world
Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College
About six months ago I stopped eating meat. I was teaching a graduate course at UCLA that investigated how Italian Renaissance...
EXPLORING NATURE
Nearly a third of Pennsylvania gamblers are at risk of problem...
Gillian Russell, Penn State and Glenn Sterner, University of Kentucky
Nearly three times as many Pennsylvania adults gamble online...
