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This week in history: The Sistine Chapel

by David Tollen | Nov 5, 2019 | Classical Civilization

Photo by Antoine Taveneaux, reproduced with permission under the Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license This week in 1512, the Vatican revealed the newly-painted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, for the first time. Renaissance master...

This Week in History: David & Michelangelo

by David Tollen | Sep 13, 2019 | The Early Modern Age

This week in 1501, Michelangelo began work on his statue of David, one of Renaissance Italy’s most famous works of art. The artist took three years to complete the piece, unveiling it in 1504. David was originally meant to stand on the roof-line of the Florence...
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