It all started with David.
Michelangelo and Fra Angelico: Two Renaissance Greats Who Died on the Same Day
Michelangelo and Fra Angelico were Italian Renaissance artists who died on the same day (many years apart).
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Renew Yourself With Lessons from the Renaissance
“Your Renaissance” by Maura Garau mines the lives, loves, and art of the Renaissance to help you live your best life.
Michelangelo in Rome: His Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel and Beyond
Michelangelo Buonarotti is most associated with Rome because of his masterpieces in the Sistine Chapel. But his work is all over the capital and it is well worth the effort to seek it out.
Photos: On the Capitoline Hill
If you climb the Capitoline Hill from the back, it is not really clear what wonderful views await you. It’s also not clear that this was once the site of ancient Rome’s most high profile executions. Roman executioners flung the empire’s traitors off of the Tarpeian Rock, which is today an overgrown, nondescript spur on an otherwise illustrious hill. (Side note: Rome probably has more history hidden from view than other cities have in total.)
