A picture of the glory days of Awadh in the eighteenth century, the book draws connections between global events of the time, ...

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The Assumption of the Virgin’ – which belongs to the Art Institute of Chicago – was last displayed in the Madrid art gallery ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

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New College of Florida's questionable admissions strategy has largely attracted athletes and mediocre students to the school.

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Feb. 18 is the feast of Blessed Fra Angelico, a Dominican friar and painter of the early Italian Renaissance. When Pope John ...