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Botticelli: Love, Wisdom, Terror

Edit The New York Review of Books 09 May 2016
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence/Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali/Photo Scala, Florence. Sandro Botticelli. Primavera, 1477–1482. Sometime around 1490 Sandro Botticelli set out to make a book unlike any ever seen before ... Almost all scholars believe that the extant drawings instead come from the 1490s and were made for a deluxe codex commissioned by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici (1463–1503)....

Monster figurehead returns home – after five centuries

Edit The Local 18 Mar 2016
A figurehead from a Danish ship that sank in the 1490s has made it home to Copenhagen after it was hauled from a Swedish sea bed last summer ... ....

Who painted the enigmatic Giustiniani Portrait? You decide

Edit The Guardian 21 Feb 2016
Exclusive. The Royal Academy will ask public to vote whether Giorgione or Titian created masterpiece at exhibition. It has divided leading experts in the art world, split for decades on which Renaissance master painted this young man’s portrait ... The oil on canvas, dated to the late 1490s, will be among exhibits in the Academy’s major exhibition, titled In the Age of Giorgione, which opens next month ... Related. The restoration game ... Twitter....

New lease of life for Wygston’s House (Leicester City Council)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Feb 2016
(Source. Leicester City Council). Published on 01 February 2016. THE MEDIEVAL timber-framed hall of the oldest surviving house in Leicester could soon be filled with people enjoying a drink or a meal ... Geoff Thornton, director of 006pubco, said ... City Mayor Peter Soulsby said ... Wygston's House is believed to be the oldest surviving house in Leicester, with the medieval, timber-framed hall at the heart of the building dating back to the 1490s....

Emilia-Romagna: The Italy of slow food and fast cars

Edit Toronto Sun 06 Dec 2015
The smoky-sweet aroma of chestnuts roasting at an outdoor market. Giant wheels of farm-made cheese. Vats of plump olives and sun-dried tomatoes. Heaps of just-picked porcini mushrooms, speckled borlotti beans and fresh figs ... Fertile plains planted with golden wheat ... In the 1490s, the Duke of Milan commissioned Da Vinci to paint The Last Supper for the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie located near the Duke’s Casa degli Atellani ... ....

Leonardo Da Vinci: Renowned British forger says he is creator of £100m drawing attributed to ...

Edit The Independent 29 Nov 2015
... ponytail, entitled La Bella Principessa, has been previously attributed by leading experts to the Italian master and is thought to show the wife of one of his patrons in the 1490s....

Bidders invited to bring new life to historic house (Leicester City Council)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Oct 2015
(Source. Leicester City Council). Published on 29 October 2015. LEICESTER City Council is looking to breathe new life into Wygston's House by inviting bids to take a new 25-year lease of the historic building ... It is believed to be the oldest surviving house in Leicester, with the medieval, timber-framed hall at the heart of the building dating back to the 1490s ... City Mayor Peter Soulsby said ... 'We're open to ideas about types of future use....

The 5,000 year history of interest rates shows just how historically low US rates are right now

Edit Business Insider 18 Sep 2015
Haldane's list of sources for this is pretty staggering (and you can look through them all here.) ... Check them out below. Mesopotamia, c 3000 BC. 20% Babylon, Code of Hammurabi, 1772 BC ... 1150 ... 20% Venice, (Leonardo da Vinci paints "The Last Supper in Milan), 1490s ... ....

The 5,000-year history of interest rates shows just how historically low US rates are right now

Edit Business Insider 18 Sep 2015
Haldane's list of sources for this is pretty staggering (you can look through them all here) ... Check them out below. Mesopotamia, c 3000 BC. 20% Babylon, Code of Hammurabi, 1772 BC ... 500 BC ... 20% Venice, (Leonardo da Vinci paints "The Last Supper in Milan), 1490s ... ....

If You Want a Better Job, Ditch Your Resume

Edit Huffington Post 01 Sep 2015
By Jay Davies, CEO of Hirenetics. Resumes are so '90s -- 1490s, that is. They've been around for such a long time that even Leonardo Da Vinci had one. Because resumes have dominated the hiring process for hundreds of years, few stop to question their efficacy, despite the dramatic changes that have taken place in technology, the way we do business, and the world ... 1. Resumes waste time and money ... 2 ... 3. Resumes promote bias and discrimination....

The Silk Roads that trace civilisation: Long before the West rose to power, Asian pathways ...

Edit The Independent 27 Aug 2015
As a child, one of my most prized possessions was a large map of the world. It was pinned on the wall by my bed, and I would stare at it every night before I went to sleep ... I would look up at my map and see huge regions of the world that had been passed over in silence ... I was hooked ... In the course of six years in the 1490s, the foundations were laid for a major disruption to the rhythm of long-established systems of exchange ... --> ... ....

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan: All loud on ...

Edit The Independent 13 Aug 2015
In 1920, HG Wells published A Short History of the World ... In 1976 JM Roberts published The Hutchison History of the World ... Once The Silk Roads reaches the 1490s and the discovery of the Americas as well as the rounding of the Cape of Good Hope and the establishment of a direct route to the Indies, the weight of the narrative moves westward to chronicle the achievements of the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, British and Americans ... --> ... ....

What the world’s first Zuckerberg told us about technology

Edit The Irish Times 05 Jul 2015
Think “awesome disruption” and most of us conjure a garage in Silicon Valley or a dorm room at Harvard. Taken together, Apple and Facebook have altered our daily existences more in the past decade than most other innovations ... Three men embarked on a remarkable collaboration ... The technology was known as “printing.” ... Royal protection for printers appeared in the 1490s, but there was no real copyright until the 17th century ... DON’T PANIC ... ....
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