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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...

Cities, Creativity, and Why the World Will Never Be Flat

by David Tollen | Feb 12, 2013 | History General

How have cities thrived and spread for the last five thousand years when they labor under such heavy burdens? In historic societies, city-dwellers lived shorter, less healthy lives than country-folk and produced too few children to maintain urban populations,...
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