Renaissance
‘I SAID WHAT I SAID’
OVER EXPOSED
Creative directors have instead created a unique installation to shield Arab visitors from the private parts of the Statue of David at the delayed 2020 World Expo.
IT’S WITH MY KEYS
A famous painting by Botticelli has been missing for six years. Is it hiding in plain sight?
THE EYES HAVE IT
Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Mona Lisa hangs in the Louvre. But a second, earlier painting is at the heart of a multi-million-dollar battle to prove its authenticity and ownership.
Historically Inaccurate Nazis
White supremacists and neo-Nazis are infiltrating the LARPing community and the professional sword-fighting realm to push an imagined narrative of an all-white Middle Ages utopia.
Changes
Kanye West’s jewelry collection is inspired by Renaissance art. It is apparently ‘timeless’ and ‘a letter to my wife from a past life that can live past our lives.’
Past Imperfect
While Michelangelo and Co. were producing some of mankind’s most transcendant works of art, the conditions they lived in stank and so did the people they worked for.
Unclassical Antiquity
The Daily Pic: In 1487, ancient heroes seemed more suited to shining armor than to togas.