Luzzi has an eye for the roller-coaster ride of literary trends and shifts in taste. In the mid-18th century, for instance, Voltaire could proclaim the unthinkable: “Nobody reads Dante anymore.” Luzzi ...

An accidental discovery in the ancient town of Old Dongola, Sudan, has revealed a set of medieval Christian paintings unlike any seen before. Old Dongola, in the North of Sudan, may not look like ...

A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars. The 700-year-old fresco is thought to be the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a hidden complex of rooms covered with Christian paintings in Old Dongola, a deserted town in Sudan that was once the capital of medieval Makuria. A team from the ...

Laurel leaves: The poet wears a medieval Italian gown and cap, plus a crown of laurel, imagery typically associated with depictions of him in paintings by artists such as Sandro Botticelli. 3.

Visitors will get to see unique medieval wall paintings, rich frescoes and icons when a historic Shrewsbury church throws open its doors to celebrate its heritage and connection with a significant ...

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French Medieval wall paintings hidden for more than 500 years in the Angers cathedral have been digitally restored, according ...

One can only surmise about the condition of the medieval wall-paintings in St Brigid's Abbey, Clare Island, Co Mayo, when Grace O'Malley was, reputedly, buried there over 400 years ago. We can be ...

Why Dante’s medieval masterwork continues to thrive in translation. I could share some of his disgust with orthodoxy and clergy, his sense of being saturated with invasive but precious ...