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Art Historian Linda Seidel Will Speak at Art Meets Science Café (MDI Biological Laboratory)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Jul 2016
Using Albrecht Dürer's watercolor, 'View of Arco,' a rocky outcrop topped by a citadel near Lake Garda, Italy, as a superb example of landscape portrayal, Seidel will talk about what the German artist learned from one of his predecessors, the Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, whose interest in the natural world led him to introduce topographical details and previously unimagined visual effects into his work in the 1420s and 1430s ... (noodl....

San Marino honors Renaissance artist Donatello with 2 commemorative coin

Edit Topix 14 Jul 2016
The Republic of San Marino is marking the 550th anniversary of the death of early Renaissance artist Donatello with a a 2 coin. Donatello created two statues of the biblical hero David, an early work in marble of a clothed figure , and a far more famous bronze figure that is nude between its helmet and boots, that dates to the 1430s or later ... ....

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

Edit Business Insider 17 Jun 2016
Stele of Narâm-Sîn, king of Akkad, c. 2250 BC. The Federal Reserve continues to keep its benchmark interest rate target pegged to a range of 0.25% to 0.50%. That's low. Interestingly, rates aren't just low within the context of American history. They also happen to be at the lowest levels in the last 5,000 years of civilization ... BAML ... Check them out below ... 20% Venice, 1430s ... ....

Botticelli: Love, Wisdom, Terror

Edit The New York Review of Books 09 May 2016
In the treatise On Painting, written in the 1430s, Leon Battista Alberti stated that a narrative painting “will move the soul of the beholder when each man painted there clearly shows the movement of his own soul.” It is often said that the wind-blown gossamer gowns of the nymphs in the Primavera were partly inspired by a passage from ......

Statues of Mary Wollstonecraft and Sylvia Pankhurst should be just the start

Edit The Guardian 07 Mar 2016
It felt like Christmas this weekend for the East End Women’s Museum, as we heard that not one but two feminist icons with links to east London are set to be honoured with statues. Mary Wollstonecraft and Sylvia Pankhurst. Related. Sylvia Pankhurst. shunned, snubbed, now to be honoured at last ... History is powerful ... Related ... As Dorothy West wrote ... Author of the earliest surviving autobiography written in English, published in the 1430s ... ....

Reading Augustine’s Mind

Edit The New York Review of Books 27 Jan 2016
Musée Thomas Henry, Cherbourg, France/Bridgeman-Giraudon/Art Resource. Fra Angelico. The Conversion of Saint Augustine, circa 1430s. His [Augustine’s] monastic base was still combined with travel, always on horseback (without stirrups). —Robin Lane Fox. Robin Lane Fox, a British classical scholar, was the historical adviser for Oliver Stone’s godawful movie Alexander ... He is an adventurous fellow ... 1. Semen bread ... 2 ... 3 ... ....

The Museo del Prado acquires The Virgin of the Pomegranate by Fra Angelico from the ...

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jan 2016
(Source. Museo Nacional del Prado) ... Tempera on panel, 83 x 59 cm ... Nonetheless, and particularly following its inclusion in the exhibition held in Florence in 1955 to mark the 500 anniversary of the painter's death, it has been unanimously accepted as an autograph work by Fra Angelico by experts of the stature of Berenson, Salmi, Berti and Pope-Hennessy, who tended to date it to the 1430s, or, more plausibly, to the previous decade....

The Museo del Prado acquires The Virgin with a Pomegranate by Fra Angelico from the ...

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jan 2016
(Source. Museo Nacional del Prado) ... Tempera on panel, 83 x 59 cm ... Nonetheless, and particularly following its inclusion in the exhibition held in Florence in 1955 to mark the 500 anniversary of the painter's death, it has been unanimously accepted as an autograph work by Fra Angelico by experts of the stature of Berenson, Salmi, Berti and Pope-Hennessy, who tended to date it to the 1430s, or, more plausibly, to the previous decade....

National Centre for Writing project in Norwich granted £900,000

Edit The Guardian 08 Jan 2016
With backing from JM Coetzee, Margaret Atwood and Anthony Horowitz, the Writers’ Centre Norwich plans to open the first UK facility of its kind in 2018 ... The project is being organised by the Writers’ Centre Norwich, a literature development agency. It hopes to open the facility in the city’s Dragon Hall, a medieval building dating back to the 1430s, in early 2018 ... Writers’ Centre Norwich chair David Gilbert added ... ....

Indian women in battle against Mumbai Haji Ali dargah ban

Edit Dawn 11 Dec 2015
MUMBAI. A landmark mosque in Mumbai is facing pressure to overturn a ban on women entering its inner sanctum, a move that could set a precedent on gender restrictions to places of worship in the deeply religious country ... The mosque is located on an islet accessible via a causeway at low tide. It was built in the 1430s in memory of a wealthy Muslim who gave up his worldly possessions and went on a pilgrimage to Mecca ... Also read ... ....

Indian women in battle against Mumbai mosque ban

Edit Yahoo Daily News 11 Dec 2015
A landmark mosque in Mumbai is facing pressure to overturn a ban on women entering its inner sanctum, a move that could set a precedent on gender restrictions to places of worship in the deeply religious country ... The mosque is located on an islet accessible via a causeway at low tide. It was built in the 1430s in memory of a wealthy Muslim who gave up his worldly possessions and went on a pilgrimage to Mecca ... pdh/tha/ds ....

WashU Expert: Witches and demonology (Washington University in Saint Louis)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Oct 2015
(Source. Washington University in Saint Louis). Detail from Ulrich Molitor's influential 'De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus' ('On Demons and Witches'), 1489 ... Gerhild Scholz Williams ... 'While the production and consumption of demonologies was vigorous from the 1430s to the 1700s, 20th-century historians and literary scholars have, until recently, shown relatively little interest in them,' writes Washington University in St ... distributed by....

Statue may be a lost work by Donatello

Edit The Hindu 22 Oct 2015
Andrew Butterfield, an art dealer and Renaissance scholar, had seen the 2.5-foot-tall wooden sculpture several years before, in a photograph, and thought it was “really fantastic” ... He passed on making an offer then ... Rare work in wood ... But the scholars that Butterfield has lined up on his side are eminent and believe that several factors point definitively to Donatello and specifically to the 1430s ... Keywords....
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