Tag: Renaissance
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...
Why Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgment’ endures
Virginia Raguin, College of the Holy Cross
Michelangelo’s fresco of “The Last Judgment,” covering the wall behind the altar...
Tattooing has held a long tradition in Christianity − dating back...
Gustavo Morello, Boston College
Holy Week and Easter are perhaps the most important days in the Christian calendar. Many...
Some of the Renaissance’s most romantic love poems weren’t for lovers
Shannon McHugh, UMass Boston
As poets have demonstrated for centuries, a sonnet for your beloved never goes out of...
Sacred hares, banished winter witches and pagan worship – the roots...
Tok Thompson, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The Easter Bunny is a much celebrated character in...
Art illuminates the beauty of science – and could inspire the...
Chris Curran, Northern Kentucky University
Scientists have often invited the public to see what they see, using everything from...
How St. Francis created the Nativity scene, with a miraculous event...
Vanessa Corcoran, Georgetown University
Around the Christmas season, it is common to see a display of the Nativity scene: a small manger with the baby...
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
Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water,...
Andres B. Sanchez Alvarado, Rice University
Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers...
