Raphael’s famous painting The School of Athens includes a geometer, presumably Euclid himself, demonstrating a construction to his fascinated students. But what theorem are they ...
Continue Reading →Between 1480 and 1520, a concentration of talented artists, including Melozzo da Forlì, Bramante, Pinturicchio, Raphael, and Michelangelo, arrived in Rome and produced ...
Continue Reading →A treatise on ancient painting, containing observations on the rise, progress, and decline of that art amongst the Greeks and Romans; the high ...
Continue Reading →Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey traces the influence of Pliny the Younger as a continuous theme throughout the history of architecture. First ...
Continue Reading →The paragone―the notion of competition and rivalry among the arts―has been a topic of debate for centuries. It erupted with great force in ...
Continue Reading →St. Peter’s in the Vatican has a long and turbulent history. First constructed in the fourth century to honor the tomb of St. ...
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