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Art of Loving Italy
Art & Beauty are all around us.
Renaissance
The Secret Life of Sofonisba—the most famous woman you’ve never heard of
The Marvelous Miss Anguissola!
Fra Filippo Lippi e Lucrezia Buti: an infamous love
Raphael’s “The School of Athens” – Fun facts and rivalries
Teresa Oaxaca — Contemporary American Artist who Paints with a Renaissance Twist
Happy 568th Birthday Leo!
The man who wrote the book of Love — Petrarch’s sonnets to Laura
The magic of the Magi.
Tale of Two Crosses by Cimabue
In the Presence of the Last Super by Stacy di Anna Pollard
Domenico Ghirlandaio: Florentine artist, teacher to Michelangelo
Buon Compleanno Michelangelo: Celebrating the Renaissance artist born March 6
I Medici – the Masters of Florence
Leonardo’s advice to Sophia – Sketch everything you see
Giorgio Vasari First Art Historian